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{"title":"Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China","authors":"Sixu Wu, Panpan Wang, Bindong Sun","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2267088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2267088","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study revealed the non-linear impact of the internet on the spatial structure of intracity employment and how transportation infrastructure moderates this non-linear impact. Using data from 22.47 million enterprises from the China Economic Census of 2004, 2008 and 2013, we found that (1) on average, the internet promotes urban employment agglomeration, but this agglomeration effect diminishes marginally as internet penetration increases; (2) the internet promotes the secondary sector to agglomerate first and then disperse, while it only has an agglomeration effect on the tertiary sector; and (3) improvements in the transportation infrastructure diminish the internet’s agglomeration effect.KEYWORDS: internet; spatial structure of urban employment; transportation infrastructure; non-linear impactJEL: O18, O33, R12 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe authors thank the editors and anonymous referees for very constructive comments on this paper.AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONSSixu Wu and Panpan Wang contributed equally to this paper.DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. According to the regression results of the DELTA index, when the road area per resident exceeds 23 m2, the value of (−0.101 + 0.032 × ln(Road density)) changes from negative to positive, and the impact of the internet changes from an inverted to a positive ‘U’-curve. In the sample of 289 cities in this study, only 19 cities have a road area per resident exceeding this threshold. In the same way, the threshold of expressway density is 55 m/km2, the threshold of the number of buses per 10,000 residents is 20, and the threshold of the number of taxis per 10,000 residents is 4.Additional informationFundingThis study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 72303027]; the Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project of China [grant number 23NDJC023Z]; the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 42071210]; the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number 2022ECNU-XWK-XK001]; the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number 2242023S20013]; and the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 71874084].","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":" 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disentangling aporophobia from xenophobia in the EU-15","authors":"Octasiano M. Valerio Mendoza, Flavio Comim, Mihály T. Borsi","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2266474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2266474","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper analyses whether the human capital levels embodied in immigrants can explain xenophobic trends for 126 regions in 14 EU-15 countries from 1998 to 2018. It tests if xenophobic regions may be rejecting immigrants because they are poor, a phenomenon recently defined as ‘aporophobia’. The results indicate that larger inflows of low-educated immigrants working in low-skilled occupations are significantly correlated with a higher rejection of migrants, thus confirming the aporophobia hypothesis. The findings in this paper bring light to the discussion of a powerful concept which underpins the need for a more just society.KEYWORDS: aporophobiaxenophobiahuman capitalimmigrationEuropean regionsJEL: I3J15R1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis article is based on an earlier conference paper entitled ‘Disentangling aporophobia from xenophobia in Europe’, presented at the 36th International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) Virtual General Conference, 2022. We extend our gratitude to the conference participants for their valuable feedback and insights. We also express our sincere appreciation to the editor and anonymous referees for their constructive comments and suggestions, which greatly contributed to the refinement and expansion of this work. This paper is based on data from Eurostat, European Labour Force Surveys, 1998-2018, Released November 2019, version 2 and DOI 0.2907/LFS1983-2018V.2. The responsibility for all conclusions drawn from the data lies entirely with the authors. Laura Stilwell and Jan Zilinsky provided excellent research assistance. We thank Abhijit Banerjee for comments. We are particularly grateful to Betsy Levy Paluck, our discussant, for her detailed and thoughtful review of an earlier draft.DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. We are very grateful to one of the anonymous referees for raising the distinction between the rational and the irrational fear of low-skilled migrants, in particular during economic recessions. In this situation, natives’ rejection of the poor might be rational and therefore unveil not pure prejudice, but personal fears related to labour market conditions. On the other hand, when this rejection of immigrants comes, for instance, with an association with racialised and ethnic beliefs, we might be facing a situation of discrimination. The literature is rich in examples when the growing criminalisation of unauthorised migrants and racialised beliefs and stereotypes about poor migrants cannot be justified by locals’ rational beliefs (e.g., Lim, Citation2021; Nuti, Citation2019).2. We express our gratitude to one of the anonymous referees who suggested this literature which explores the impact of immigration on the dynamics of labour markets.3. Aporophobia is a general phenomenon that might be as directed at the migrant poor as it is aimed at the native poor. Here we only tackle the kind of aporophobia directed at the migrant poor. We ado","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"2 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135589387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultivating China’s fintech ecosystem: the visible hand of the state","authors":"Vladimír Pažitka, Dariusz Wójcik, Wei Wu","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2267082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2267082","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the role of open system intermediaries (OSIs), including incubators, accelerators and science parks, in the effort of the Chinese state to harness the innovative potential of fintech ventures. We conducted 50 semi-structured interviews and documented how the Chinese state uses OSIs to support strategically important financial services firms in nurturing cohorts of fintech ventures. This consequently gives rise to a tech-for-fin ecosystem, where innovative fintech ventures are moulded into becoming technology providers for financial services incumbents, while those wishing to fundamentally disrupt the established financial order are excluded from the various support mechanisms provided through OSIs.","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"3 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135589377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geography and branding in the craft beer industry","authors":"Ryan M. Hynes, Dieter F. Kogler","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2255618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2255618","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPlace-based branding strategies are important marketing tools for both regions and firms and take advantage of consumers’ embrace of the local in response to globalisation. Craft-brewing is a particularly salient user of these strategies and provides ample data. We use a dataset of breweries, their marketing language and their consumer ratings to study the effectiveness of place-based branding. We use named entity recognition to count references to geography, and measure how these references impact ratings. We find a strong, positive link between the number of place-based labels and a brewery’s rating, suggesting consumers are receptive to placed-based branding.KEYWORDS: craft beereconomic geographyregional studiesplace-based brandingmarketingconsumer perceptionnatural language processingJEL: L66M30R11 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are very grateful to this special issue's guest editors, Carolina Castaldi and Sandro Mendonça, for their direction and guidance. Ronald Davies also made several helpful comments to early drafts of this paper. Most of all, we thank our three anonymous reviewers who provided excellent feedback and countless suggestions to strengthen this article.DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. See https://www.brewbound.com/news/untappd-parent-company-next-glass-receives-investment2. See https://help.untappd.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034136372-How-are-ratings-determined-on-Untappd-3. For more information on FastLang, see https://spacy.io/universe/project/spacy_fastlang4. See https://help.untappd.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034018812-Supported-Brewery-Types5. European regions are classified according to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)-2 level schema; for further information on this, see https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/background6. For more information on spaCy, see https://spacy.io/7. For reporting of NER metrics, see https://spacy.io/models/en; and for spaCy’s performance against NLP benchmark datasets, see https://spacy.io/usage/facts-figures8. See https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/spacy/glossary.py/. This definition is itself derived from the definitions put forth in the ACL MUC 7 task, https://aclanthology.org/M98-1028.pdf9. A handful of large breweries, Guinness, for example, are very tightly coupled with place. These global macrobreweries, however, do not compete against microbreweries in the same way, and so place may become less important to consumers in differentiating these products.","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"58 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135219380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation","authors":"Helen Dinmore, Andrew Beer, Jacob Irving, Markku Sotarauta","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2259944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2259944","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses debates on the role of agency in shaping the economic future of regions. Scholarship on agency departs from the earlier focus of evolutionary economic geography, which highlighted the role of pre-existing structural conditions. This paper challenges the notion that agency is only found in intentional action and is limited to key actors within a region. It questions exclusive focus on the impact of entrepreneurial leaders, place leaders and government, and identifies agency in the accumulated micro-decisions of multiple decision-makers, using the example of workers affected by the closure of Australia’s passenger vehicle industry. In so doing, it underscores the twin roles of collective vision and meaningful implementation in the successful transformation of regions.","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"14 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135405346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resilience to disruptions: the role of regional soft spaces","authors":"Andrew G. McClelland, Duncan Shaw","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2259940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2259940","url":null,"abstract":"A soft spaces lens enables a nuanced perspective on regional resilience governance to disruptions. Focusing on COVID-19, this article illuminates comparative insights into resilience governance in England and how the regional soft spaces of local resilience forums differentially experienced this momentous disruptive event. The pandemic has exposed the limited ability of these regional soft spaces to enhance resilience to disruptions and thus narrow the resilience implementation gap. This article contributes to theory and practice on the tensions and opportunities to progress resilience governance through regional soft spaces amid an evolving policy landscape post-pandemic.","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135730553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions","authors":"Yuting Yang, Freke Caset, Ben Derudder","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2255623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2255623","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTResearch examining the economic effects of urban polycentricity remains inconclusive. We contribute to this debate by developing a longitudinal framework in which changes in polycentricity in Chinese urban regions are linked with changes in total factor productivity. While we find no evidence of urban polycentricity being conducive to economic growth, we observe that the relationship depends on population size and the interactions between cities. We also find that cities borrow size from nearby cities in large urban regions, contributing to regional economic growth. We use our findings to reflect on China’s regional economic and urban development strategies.KEYWORDS: polycentricityurban regions; productivityborrowed sizeChinaJEL: C36D24O11R11 DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. Among them, BBW UR in Guangxi province is not included, as not all boundaries are coastal, and this UR shares a border with Vietnam.2. The autonomous prefectures cities with incomplete data include Xiangyang (2005–09), Hong Kong (2005–17) and Bijie (2005–17) alongside nine other cities.3. The conditions we set to determine ‘population centres’ are tailored to the Chinese context. We set the criterion (over 3 km²) given that some newly planned towns in some Chinese cities are surrounded by areas with low population density and weak infrastructure. While they may be regarded as population centres in absolute terms, they are not qualified as ‘actual’ population centres due to their modest influence on their surroundings and should therefore be filtered out (Li & Liu, Citation2018). Second, according to ‘The Rule on the Organization of Urban District Offices in China’ (2018), districts with populations of more than 100,000 should establish street offices. These street offices are responsible for the task prescribed by the municipal or district government (e.g., construction of economic development zone) (Ma & Wu, Citation2004). So, each street often has a concentrated area and the population density of the boundary region between streets is often relatively lower. Therefore, if the urban population in the district reaches 100,000, it might indicate the emergence of new population centres.4. The extraction of contiguous pixels is based on the eight-connectivity rule.5. The cohesion index denotes the average indexes between all pairs of interior points in an urban area; the proximity index denotes the average distance from all interior points to the centroid of the urban area; the spin index is the average of the square of the distances between all interior points and the centroid of the urban area; and the range index is the maximum distance between two points on the perimeter of the urban area.6. The estimation of the urban area in response to growth of urban population may be confounded by underlying city-specific trends, potentially driven by the initial conditions (i.e., the base situation in 1992). Nevertheless,","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135967756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Personality and place as resources for regional development: Alfred Nobel’s Karlskoga","authors":"Rhiannon Pugh, Ida Andersson","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2250813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2250813","url":null,"abstract":"In ‘Alfred Nobel’s Karlskoga’, Sweden, the municipality has placed its most famous former resident at the heart of its economic development strategy. Through an in-depth qualitative case study, we examine the tensions and complexities surrounding this process and fill an existing research gap around personality-based place branding for regional development purposes. The findings suggest that even with a world-famous figure as talisman, personality-based place branding is a complex endeavour where old rivalries, tightknit social structures and economic dependencies makes us question – is it even possible to build a brand that is both inclusive and truly representational of a place?","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the geographical distribution of innovation in England: density, accessibility and spillover effects","authors":"Stephen Roper, Halima Jibril","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2252900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2252900","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the role of population density and accessibility in shaping innovation intensity in the 32,000 lower super output areas (LSOAs) in England. Our analysis focuses on firms’ registered intellectual property – patents, trademarks and registered designs – and using spatial autoregression models suggests four key results. We find a positive relationship between population density and innovation intensity, a consistent negative relationship between longer journey times to the nearest town centre and innovation intensity, and a strong interaction effect between population density and accessibility. Finally, we find strong evidence of local innovation spillovers reflecting either competition or demonstration effects.","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135830508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies","authors":"Güldem Özatağan, Ayda Eraydin","doi":"10.1080/00343404.2023.2249505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2249505","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the twists and turns that characterise the political reactions of some ‘left-behind’ places. Offering a situated, context-sensitive and temporal analysis of Turkey’s once extractive heartland, we unveil a volatile and particularly fragile political terrain and throw light on its contingency on changing modes of state intervention and power-laden strategies responsive to disaffection and discontent. We suggest that this power-laden mechanism that plays down, if not eradicates, the ability of places to transform and thrive precludes conceptions that invariably position left-behind places as ‘vengeful’ and invites dynamic and context-sensitive comprehensions of discontent and agential and processual reconceptions of left-behindness.KEYWORDS: left-behind placesgeographies of discontentuneven developmentneoliberalisationstate spatial strategiesmodalities of powerterritorial politicsJEL: F6R58 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThe article was written during Özatağan's visiting fellowship at Newcastle University, Centre for Urban and Regional Research (CURDS), funded by the Council for at Risk Academics and the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund (2021-2023). Earlier versions of the paper were presented at a CURDS internal seminar and at the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography, 7-10 June 2022, Dublin, Ireland. We thank our colleagues who participated in these sessions for their thought-provoking questions and comments, including Danny MacKinnon, Andy Pike, Kean Fan Lim and Emma Ormerod. We also appreciate the careful reading and constructive comments of the three referees and the guest editors, from which the paper benefitted greatly. Any errors that remain lie entirely with the authors.DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1. Of the four workshops carried out, this paper draws on the qualitative data derived from the first workshop only.2. In compliance with the larger project’s strict compliance with national and international ethical guidelines (approved by the main applicant), study participants were informed about the purpose, methods and possible uses of the research and asked to provide verbal consent before participating in the workshop, focus groups and interviews. Any information on the identity and the affiliation of the study participants has been anonymised and coded by ascribing a pseudonym to each participant that reflects the organisation they represent and their position in the institution.3. The quotations presented in this paper have not been previously published.4. The locality ranked 86th among 872 settlements in the country in terms of socio-economic development. Unemployment rose to 9.13% in 2004, slightly below national average (10.8%), placing it 167th in rank out of 872 settlements in the country (Dinçer & Özarslan, Citation2004).5. Authors’ own calculation based on data from www.tuik.gov.trAdditional informationFundingThis study was su","PeriodicalId":21097,"journal":{"name":"Regional Studies","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135344387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}