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Deriving the number of jobs in proximity services from the number of inhabitants in French rural municipalities
We use a minimum requirement approach to derive the number of jobs in
proximity services per inhabitant in French rural municipalities. We first
classify the municipalities according to their time distance to the
municipality where the inhabitants go the most frequently to get services
(called MFM). For each set corresponding to a range of time distance to MFM, we
perform a quantile regression estimating the minimum number of service jobs per
inhabitant, that we interpret as an estimation of the number of proximity jobs
per inhabitant. We observe that the minimum number of service jobs per
inhabitant is smaller in small municipalities. Moreover, for municipalities of
similar sizes, when the distance to the MFM increases, we find that the number
of jobs of proximity services per inhabitant increases.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Broadening democracy against environmental justice: The example of Montreal borough councils
Dependence, diversity, and the well-being of rural community: building on the Freudenburg legacy
Diversifizierte Spezialisierung – ein Schritt zur Erweiterung des regionalökonomischen Konzepts „Spezialisierung vs. Diversifizierung“
The role of cultural heritage in attracting skilled individuals
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role played by built heritages and cultural environments, alongside other locational factors, in explaining the growth of human capital in Sweden. We distinguish between urban, natural and cultural qualities as different sources of regional attractiveness and estimate their influence on the observed growth of individuals with at least three years of higher education during 2001–2010. Neighborhood-level data are used, and unobserved heterogeneity and spatial dependencies are modeled by employing random effects estimations and an instrumental variable approach. Our findings indicate that the local supply of built heritages and cultural environments explain a significant part of human capital growth in Sweden. Results suggest that these types of cultural heritages are important place-based resources with a potential to contribute to improved regional attractiveness and growth