The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, Jacques‐François; Toutain, Jean-Claude

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2010.12.004

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“…The growing differences in production structures, however, tended to become smaller in the early decades of the 20 th century, when industrialisation spread to a greater number of provinces, especially during the inter-war years (Betrán 1999;Tirado and Martínez-Galarraga 2008). (footnote continued) been found in the spatial concentration of the industrial sector in the United States (Kim 1995) and France (Combes et al 2011), where the change of trend came about before the Second World War.…”

Section: Spatial Inequality and Regional Economic Growth In Spain 18mentioning

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“…The reconstruction of regional GDP estimates for Spain is in line with the international literature that has recently provided historical estimations for different countries. This would be the case, among others, of Britain (Crafts 2005;Geary and Stark 2015), Italy (Felice 2011), France (Combes et al 2011), Portugal (Badia-Miró et al 2011, Sweden (Henning et al 2011;Enflo and Rosés 2015), Belgium (Buyst 2012) or Mexico (Aguilar-Retureta 2015).…”

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Why Did Spanish Regions Not Converge Before the Civil War? Agglomeration Economies and (Regional) Growth Revisited

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In this paper we explore the relationship between the presence of agglomeration economies and regional economic growth in Spain during the period . The study allows us to revisit the existence of a trade-off between economic growth and territorial cohesion, and also to examine whether the existence of agglomeration economies could explain the upswing in regional income inequality during the early stages of development. In doing so, we present alternative indicators for agglomeration economies and estimate conditional growth regressions at province (NUTS3) level. In line with new economic geography models, agglomeration economies in a context of market integration widened regional inequality in the second half of the 19 th century and hindered its reduction during the early decades of the 20 th .Keywords: agglomeration, economic growth, economic history, Spain 417 RESUMENEn este artículo se analiza la existencia de una relación entre la presencia de economías de aglomeración y el crecimiento económico regional en España durante el periodo 1870-1930. El estudio permite revisitar la existencia de un trade-off entre crecimiento económico y cohesión territorial y, además, examinar si las economías de aglomeración fueron un elemento clave a la hora de explicar el incremento de la desigualdad económica regional en España a lo largo de las primeras fases del desarrollo. Para ello, se presentan diferentes indicadores de aglomeración a nivel provincial (NUTS3) que posteriormente se incluyen en la estimación de regresiones de crecimiento condicionadas. En la línea de los modelos de Nueva Geografía Económica (NEG), sugerimos que la presencia de economías de aglomeración en un contexto de integración de mercado favoreció la aparición de una causación acumulativa que amplió la desigualdad regional en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y dificultó su reducción durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX.

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Section: Spatial Inequality and Regional Economic Growth In Spain 18mentioning

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Why Did Spanish Regions Not Converge Before the Civil War? Agglomeration Economies and (Regional) Growth Revisited

2015

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“…One of the main general lessons in the literature on spatial economic dynamics is that regional income disparities tend to follow an inverted U-curve (Williamson 1965;Kuznets 1966;Combes et al 2011;Kim 1995;Paluzie et al 2004;Barrios and Strobl 2009). While initial regional divergence in the early part of the process of industrialisation has been explained by industrial geographical agglomeration experiencing positive externalities (for instance , Myrdal 1957;Hirschman 1958), the convergence part of the curve follows the expectations of factor price equalisation (made possible by falling costs of transportation) in accordance with neo-classical theory.…”

Section: Regional Divergence Agglomeration and Inequalitymentioning

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‘Growth with equity’ and regional development: distributional consequences of agglomeration in Taiwan

Andersson

Klinthäll

2014

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

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This study investigates long-term distributional effects of regional agglomeration. We analyse changes in relative incomes for different educational and occupational categories in Taiwan from 1976-2006, a period during which the country underwent fundamental structural change from labour to knowledge intensive industry and increasing globalisation of the economy. Long-term patterns derived from repeated estimations of cross-sectional micro level data from 31 consecutive annual household surveys show that less educated groups are not systematic losers of the transformation as positive externalities of agglomeration are both significant and widespread in the leading region. The famous pattern of 'growth with equity' in Taiwan has, however, become a regional rather than national feature.

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“…This is the reason because in 1980 any region had a very high value, and also is a sign of less inequality. 12 For Spain see Rosés et al (2010), for France see Combes et al (2011) and Crafts and Mulatu (2005) among others,…”

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Regional Incomes in Portugal: Industrialisation, Integration and Inequality, 1890-1980

Badia-Miró¹,

Guilera²,

Lains

2012

RHE / JILAEH

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ResumenEl análisis de la evolución de la localización de la actividad económica en Portugal, entre 1890 y 1980, nos muestra un fuerte proceso de concentración de la producción en las zonas costeras, coincidiendo con el proceso de decadencia de las provincias agrícolas del interior. A su vez, la evolución de la desigualdad espacial sigue una curva U-invertida, en la línea de lo observado en otras regiones de Europa, pero con el punto máxima desigualdad hacia 1970, mucho más tarde que esas regiones. Las razones de ese comportamiento estarían en las dificultades que tuvo el país para modernizar la economía JEL: N9, R1 AbstractThe analysis of the evolution of the localization of the economic activity in Portugal, among 1890 and 1980, shows a strong process of concentration of the economic activity in the coastal zones, coinciding with the process of decline of the agriculture in the inner provinces. At the same time, the evolution of spatial inequality follows a U-inverted curve, in line with that observed in other regions of Europe, with the unequal peak around 1970, much later than those regions. The reasons for this behavior would be found in the difficulties experienced by the country in their effort to modernize the industry in the lagged regions, and the benefits generated by the agglomeration economies in the more developed regions.

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The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective

Cited by 119 publications

References 38 publications

Why Did Spanish Regions Not Converge Before the Civil War? Agglomeration Economies and (Regional) Growth Revisited

Why Did Spanish Regions Not Converge Before the Civil War? Agglomeration Economies and (Regional) Growth Revisited

‘Growth with equity’ and regional development: distributional consequences of agglomeration in Taiwan

Regional Incomes in Portugal: Industrialisation, Integration and Inequality, 1890-1980

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