{"title":"Income Inequality and County Economic Resistance to Job Loss during the Great Recession","authors":"Mallory L. Rahe, B. Weber, X. Wu, M. Fisher","doi":"10.52324/001c.7935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7935","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the effects of income inequality on short-run changes in growth in the context of the most recent U.S. recession in both urban and rural counties. Resistance to job loss in the Great Recession is modeled as a function of local income inequality, controlling for community capital assets, and the size and structure of the local population and economy. Regression results suggest that the effect of local inequality on resilience depends on the size of a county's population. High inequality increases the recessionary employment drop in counties with large populations but reduces the employment drop in the smallest counties.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84835384","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":"Economic Contribution of Ohio’s Wood Industry Cluster: Identifying Opportunities in the Appalachian Region","authors":"Gilbert L Michaud, G. J. Jolley","doi":"10.52324/001c.7936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7936","url":null,"abstract":"Ohio's wood industry cluster contributes nearly $25 billion and 116,321 jobs to the state's economy, yet most of this value-added impact occurs outside of the heavily forested Appalachian Ohio region. This research, conducted as part of a Small Business Administration Regional Innovation Cluster grant, includes a multi-industry economic contribution analysis to document wood industry impacts to the entire State of Ohio and the 32-county Appalachian Ohio region. Findings indicated that Appalachian Ohio contained lower paying and lower on the value chain sectors compared to the state. This paper highlights these metrics and presents recommendations to improve investment and value-added industry opportunities in the wood industry cluster to support Appalachian Ohio.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89354344","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":"Labor Market Hollowing-Out in North Carolina: Measurement and Analysis","authors":"Michael L. Walden","doi":"10.52324/001c.7931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7931","url":null,"abstract":": Hollowing-out of the labor force, meaning the relative decline in middle-paying jobs combined with the relative rise in both high-paying and low-paying jobs, has been a phenomenon observed and analyzed at the national level. This paper extends that work by analyzing job shifts in 46 regions of North Carolina during the 21 st century. From 2001 to 2015, hollowing-out occurred in all but one of the regions, but to different degrees. An empirical analysis shows the relative decline of middle-paying jobs was stronger in regions with a larger share of employment in manufacturing and construction and in regions with slower population growth.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78865323","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":"Economic Impact of a Heritage Policy on Residential Property Values in a Historic District Context: The Case of the Old City of Quebec","authors":"Nicolas Devaux Etienne Berthold, Jean DubÃ","doi":"10.52324/001c.7989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7989","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have attempted to measure the willingness-to-pay to locate inside a historic district. Yet not enough attention has been paid to the implicit value attributed to the impact of heritage policies within the historic district. This paper fills that gap by investigating the impact of such policies on individual condominium properties for the case of the Old City of Quebec (Canada), designated by law as a protected area and included on the World Heritage List (UNESCO). More precisely, this research measures the impacts of the reorganization and landscaping of one particular street located south-west of the protection area in the old part of Quebec City. A difference-in-differences (DID) estimator based on a hedonic repeated sales approach is proposed to isolate such effects based on proximity to the site under study. Estimation results suggest that the reorganization of the street had no significant impact on the closest properties’ prices, but had negative effects for properties located within 150 to 450 meters of the street. These observations outline complex relations between heritage policies and urban landscaping projects.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78825880","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":"Who Benefits from More Housing? A Panel Data Study on the Role of Housing in the Intermunicipal Migration of Different Age Cohorts in Sweden","authors":"Peter Karpestam","doi":"10.52324/001C.7994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001C.7994","url":null,"abstract":"Although Swedish housing standards are high and young adults leave the parental home relatively early, there are indications that for certain groups housing has, in recent years, become less accessible. We analyse how housing characteristics affect intermunicipal mobility for different age cohorts and estimate a panel data gravity model that models migration as a function of origin and destination characteristics. The results suggest that new construction in the past two decades has negatively affected migration within commuting regions more than migration between commuting regions. For metropolitan areas, there are considerable negative effects on net migration from other commuter regions because new construction has not kept pace with population growth. The effects are stronger for young adults (20-44) compared to older adults (45-74). Further, we find that, while new construction stimulates mobility for all age cohorts, the estimated relationship is weaker for the youngest adults; indicating a need for more variation in new construction to satisfy different needs. Also, we find that the decreased share of rentals since 1992 have negatively affected the short-distance mobility of the youngest adults while the effect is weaker or even positive for the remaining age cohorts.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"162 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84289422","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":"Unemployment and Entrepreneurship in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States: A Spatial Panel Data Analysis","authors":"Ismail M. Cole","doi":"10.52324/001c.7992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7992","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of whether unemployment leads to more or fewer firm births and whether firm births reduce unemployment have produced mixed, inconclusive, and even conflicting results. A group of studies have attempted to reconcile these findings by exploring the possibility that the assumed linear relationship may break down and become non-linear, as might be the case if the relationships were space- and time-variant. However, these studies have also produced inconclusive results. The current study extends the analysis in this small but growing literature from the usual single- and multi-country level to the sub-country level while paying particular attention to the role of spatial effects in the firm creation process. We do this by combining spatial exploratory data analysis and spatial econometrics based on panel data for 365 counties in the Mid-Atlantic region from 1999 to 2010. The results show that spatial effects play a crucial role in this process and that ignoring them substantially underestimates the long-run effects of unemployment on firm births. The results also reveal a robust and statistically significant inverted U-shaped relationship in which rising unemployment raises the firm birth rate up to a certain threshold. In addition, a U-shaped relationship where rising firm births lower unemployment for a period but subsequently increase it is observed. These non-linear results help explain some of the conflicting findings in the literature.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89755554","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":"Does Titling Matter? Evidence from Housing Markets in India","authors":"J. Landry, A. Bento, Somik V. Lall","doi":"10.52324/001c.7993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7993","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we exploit the plausibly exogenous random relocation of slum dwellers in Pune, India to evaluate whether the provision of a formal title is capitalized into property values. Using propensity score matching methods, which address important sources of bias that are present in conventional Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) hedonic methods, we find no effect of titling. Our results suggest that slum improvements may be sufficient to enhance informal tenure rights and that formalizing those rights with a title has little additional impact. An analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects from titling confirms this conclusion, providing preliminary evidence when titling may complement or substitute for other slum interventions.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78831976","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":"The Italian Regional Dualism: A MARS and Panel Data Analysis","authors":"Iacopo Odoardi","doi":"10.52324/001c.7991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7991","url":null,"abstract":"The income gap between the richest and the poorest areas in Italy has increased in the last decades. We study the sources of regional wealth that can explain the differences in income and compare rich and poor areas to provide suggestions on how to bridge the gap. A multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) analysis is used to detect the relevant GDP determinants, and a fixed effects model is used to investigate the regional characteristics. The effects of the 2007 crisis are evident in all regions, and some structural weaknesses in the less wealthy areas limit the opportunities to exit the recession and close many socioeconomic gaps with the wealthiest regions.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"5 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79412989","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":"The Rules of the Game","authors":"P. Schaeffer","doi":"10.52324/001c.7988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.7988","url":null,"abstract":"The success or failure of economic actors depends on a variety of factors, which I sort into three groups: attitudes and values, endowments, and rules. Of these three, we only fully control for factors in the first group. Factors in the other two groups are determined by luck, though through individual effort we may enhance them, particularly endowments such as talent or inherited resources. As individuals, most of us have no or very little influence on rules. Rules depend on power, and most people exercise power only indirectly as members of a group or groups. In this address, I focus on the rules, which also means that I focus on power, a neglected topic in economic development, and in modern economics in general.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76778089","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":"Physical Water Use and Water Sector Activity in Environmental Input-Output Analysis","authors":"O. Alabi, M. Munday, K. Swales, K. Turner","doi":"10.52324/001c.9677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.9677","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses input-output accounting methods to identify the direct, indirect and induced physical demand for water. Previously the seminal work by Leontief (1970) has been employed to motivate a fuller account of issues related to sectors that generate and sectors that clean/treat polluting outputs (Allan et al 2007). The present paper extends this approach to deal with sectors that use a natural resource and the sector(s) that supply it. We focus on the case of water use and supply and a case study for the Welsh regional economy. The analysis shows how the proposed method, using both the quantity input-output model and the associated price dual, can be used to consider economy wide implications of the deviation between actual expenditure on the output of the water sector and actual physical water use. The price paid per physical amount of water appears to vary greatly amongst different uses. This may occur for various reasons. We argue that such analysis and information is essential for policy makers and regulators in understanding the demands on and supply of UK regional water resources, their role in supporting economic expansion, and can ultimately inform water sustainability objectives and strategies.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75016579","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}