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{"title":"EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES IN THE JAPANESE ASSEMBLY‐TYPE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY FOR 1985–2000: USING AGGLOMERATION AND COAGGLOMERATION INDICES","authors":"S. Tokunaga, M. Kageyama, Yuko Akune, Ryohei Nakamura","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12019","url":null,"abstract":"type=\"main\"> This empirical study finds that positive but weak agglomeration economies resulted from the agglomeration of Japan's assembly-type manufacturing industry during 1985–2000. Estimation results particularly indicate positive externalities from coagglomeration and very slightly increasing returns to scale. Traditional studies conceive of agglomeration economies as being related to localization and urbanization. We, however, estimate a flexible translog production function using four-digit Standard Industrial Classification industry panel data and Ellison and Glaeser's agglomeration index with the same industry and coagglomeration index with different industry groups. We theoretically obtain appropriate and significant results without the homotheticity restriction.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"57-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CHILDCARE ACCESS AND EMPLOYMENT: THE CASE OF WOMEN WITH PRESCHOOL‐AGED CHILDREN IN TOKYO","authors":"Mizuki Kawabata","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12018","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an empirical study on childcare accessibility and the importance of access to childcare in attaining preferred employment among women with preschool-aged children in Tokyo. The age-wise childcare accessibility of this study takes into account spatial variations in the supply and demand of childcare, as well as “spatial competition,” based on spatially micro areas — blocks. The accessibility reveals a considerable geographic mismatch between childcare center supply and demand, particularly for children aged up to two years. Empirical results show that access to childcare is closely associated with a higher probability of attaining preferred employment among women with preschool-aged children. The association is remarkably strong when a woman has a very young child aged up to two years and when the childcare center is one that is desired. Adequate childcare provision, particularly for children under the age of three, helps to augment active female participation in the labor market.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"40-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CONVERGENCE OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC CYCLES IN TURKEY","authors":"H. Duran","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12015","url":null,"abstract":"Dissimilar economic fluctuations and asymmetric shocks across the regions of a country might create severe policy distortions that, under these circumstances, aggregate policy interventions (such as taxation and interest rates), are likely to be sub-optimal for at least a fraction of the regions. For instance, monetary policy can hardly satisfy the needs of all regions when some of the regions are experiencing a boom while others are in a recession phase. For these reasons, similarity of regional business cycles and their convergence are highly desirable from a policy viewpoint. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to provide empirical evidence and policy implications in that context. In particular, I analyze business cycle correlations across Turkish provinces and the tendency of these cycles to converge over the period of analysis between 1975–2000 and 2004–2008 (for Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics [NUTS]-2 regions). I find that regional business cycle asymmetries have tended to decrease in recent decades. This result, although it seems to provide evidence in favor of rising correlations, shows that the convergence process is rather slow and there still exist asymmetries across the regional business cycles.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"152-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63727031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TRADE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY: THE CASE OF TURKEY","authors":"Ertan Oktay, Giray Gozgor","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12013","url":null,"abstract":"There is a widespread literature to investigate the relations among increasing trade, economic growth and development; however the relationship between trade and regional development is remained inconsiderable. The aim of this study is, to investigate the interrelationship between trade and regional development in Turkey. Therefore firstly, regional development index is defined for 81 provinces of Turkey for the period from 2002 to 2008. This definition is based on the concept and calculation method of Human Development Index (HDI) of United Nations Development Programme. HDI is taken as a basis because it is a composite measure of education, health, and income. Health and education data used in this paper are Regional Statistics of Turkish Statistical Institute. However, GDP/GDP per capita data are not available for provinces for the period under concern. Several studies obviously show that there is a causality relationship between GDP and energy consumption. Thus, energy consumption statistics are used instead of income data. The seminal approaches of uniform and heterogeneous intra-national space of urban systems (and new economic geography models are considered to be worthwhile. To show the relationship between regional development index and share of volume of trade and between regional development index and trade openness, these approaches are utilized within generalized method of moments procedure in a panel data framework. Accordingly we use three dummy variables as endogenous or exogenous, namely large city, port and border provinces. The empirical findings show that the increases in trade openness are positively associated with future increases in regional development. As a result, large cities have a positive effect in this relationship, while the dummy variables of port and border provinces have not found statistically significant. The link between share of volume of trade and regional development is found out negative, merely when the approach of uniform intra-national space of new economic geography model is considered in our estimation. Furthermore, the results of panel causality tests, the share of volume of trade significantly causes regional development. On the other hand, there is a bilateral causality relationship between regional development and trade openness.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"201-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63727021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A CENTURY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE URBAN SYSTEM IN BRAZIL","authors":"V. Matlaba, Mark J. Holmes, P. McCann, J. Poot","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12012","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the hitherto unexplored evolution of the size distribution of 185 urban areas in Brazil between 1907 and 2008. We find that the power law parameter of the size distribution of the 100 largest urban areas increases from 0.63 in 1907 to 0.89 in 2008, which confirms an agglomeration process in which the size distribution has become more unequal. A panel fixed effects model pooling the same range of urban size distributions provides a power law parameter equal to 0.53, smaller than those from cross-sectional estimation. Clearly, Zipf’s Law is rejected. The lognormal distribution fits the city size distribution quite well until the 1940s, but since then applies to small and medium size cities only. These results are consistent with our understanding of historical-political and socio-economic processes that have shaped the development of Brazilian cities.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"129-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structural Changes and Interregional Income Inequality in the Philippines, 1975-2009","authors":"Takahiro Akita, Mark Saliganan Pagulayan","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12024","url":null,"abstract":"type=\"main\"> The Philippines has undergone gradual, but substantial, changes in industrial structure over the past few decades, and these have been associated with changes in the geographical distribution of economic activity. This study analyzes changes in the determinants of regional income inequality in the Philippines associated with these structural changes from 1975 to 2009. This is accomplished by using the bidimensional decomposition method. The reduction of the disparity between the National Capital Region (NCR) and the rest of Luzon is essential to decreasing Luzon's high within-region inequality and overall interregional inequality. However, this is not easy to accomplish, as service sectors have enjoyed agglomeration economies that the NCR has nurtured under economic liberalization and globalization. Decentralization has been one way to ameliorate the disparity, but its effects are ambiguous. Another option would be to relocate some manufacturing activities to areas outside the NCR where they could enjoy localization economies.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"135-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC FIRMS AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT IN AN INTEGRATED ECONOMY","authors":"Tohru Naito","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents analysis of the effect on urban employment of public firm privatization in separate countries. We consider an economy consisting of two goods and two countries, and take account of a mixed duopoly in the manufacturing goods sector in the urban area of each country. We extend the Harris and Todaro model by introducing a mixed oligopoly model. Results of this analysis show that the privatization of public firms in the home country engenders improvement of urban unemployment in the home country. However, the progressive privatization of public firms in the foreign country can worsen urban unemployment in the home country.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"93-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN SHIKOKU REGION BY INTER-REGIONAL INPUT–OUTPUT TABLE","authors":"Pongsak Suttinon, S. Nasu, T. Ihara, Nattakorn Bongochgetsakul, Kotomi Uemoto","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the use of inter-regional input–output model for water accounts (IRIO-Water), which combines inter-regional input–output model and water accounts system, as a tool to evaluate water demand and water-policy impacts among each industrial sector in Shikoku region of Japan. This IRIO-Water model which combines a descriptive device and an analytical tool, is enumerated by combining three regions as (1) upper Shikoku, (2) lower Shikoku, and (3) the rest of Japan under conditions of rainfall pattern, geographical area, and inter-regional trade of each region. The calculation results of water demand are compared among each industrial sector with impacts from implementation of governmental policies such as 3Rs policy (reduce-reuse-recycle). The results in this paper indicated that IRIO-Water model provides a tool that allows decision makers to accurately evaluate water demand and water-policy impacts with consideration not only of inter-industry trade, but also of inter-regional linkages.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"107-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION: ASYMMETRY OF REGIONS AND TRADE COSTS","authors":"Jian Wang, Xiao-Ping Zheng","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the impact of international trade liberalization and regional integration on the distribution of economic activities within countries such as China. We extend Krugman's original New Economic Geography model to account for a two-country, three-region case where the home country is fully asymmetrical in terms of its size and access to global markets. Our simulation results show that the spatial economy of the home country changes in a more complex way than is shown in Krugman's results. When international trade liberalization continues but domestic regions remain poorly integrated, the gate region experiences a change from partial to full agglomeration. When the home country is closed to international trade, the decrease in domestic transport costs makes the hinterland more attractive for manufacturing. However, when it is open to global markets, more manufacturing is undertaken in the gate region.","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"61-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the performance of small scale maize producers in Nigeria : an integrated distance function approach","authors":"G. Aye, E. Mungatana","doi":"10.1111/RURD.12010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/RURD.12010","url":null,"abstract":"German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and World Bank Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF)","PeriodicalId":39676,"journal":{"name":"Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"79-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/RURD.12010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63726931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}