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Spatial aggregation and resampling expansion of big surveys: An analysis of wage inequality
2020
Income inequality is becoming a growing concern, worldwide, with wage inequality being the root cause of its recent escalation. With the aim of adding to the knowledge on this subject, this paper focuses on the spatial dimension of the problem, an aspect which has received less attention in the literature. We identify the determinants of inequality in wage distribution in Spain at a provincial level using the microdata of the Structure of Earnings Survey (N = 216,769) and estimate their impact from a spatial perspective. Spatial computation of wage concentrations, however, reduces the sample size to just 52 observations, leading to model challenges. To overcome this problem, we adopt a supe…
Well‐being in European regions: Does government quality matter?
2020
This paper constructs a composite indicator of well‐being for 168 European regions with data from 10 well‐being domains. Regions are then ranked according to their respective levels of well‐being. The ranking reveals notable differences across European regions, which follow a marked spatial pattern. As a second contribution, the paper analyses the impact of the quality of government on well‐being. Results show a positive association robust to several specifications and scenarios. Moreover, the effects of quality of government on individual well‐being dimensions are identified, finding positive links with education, jobs, income, safety civic engagement, access to services, housing and commu…
The impact of health status and human capital formation on regional performance: Empirical evidence
2020
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of health on growth, assuming that it is a fundamental component of the human capital of a region along with education. Various measures of population health status are used, together with a health index generated by principal component analysis. Potential endogeneity between health and growth is controlled for using instrumental variable regressions and dynamic panel data. The results show a positive effect of a change in health status on regional output and a negative effect of proxy variables for health limitations on regional performance. This corroborates the importance of investing in health along with education with the aim of improv…
Where Alonso meets Sierpinski: an urban economic model of a fractal metropolitan area
2004
International audience; La coexistence d'activités résidentielles et agricoles dans des ceintures périurbaines caractérise de nombreuses aires métropolitaines modernes. Malheureusement, peu de modèles théoriques de l'économie urbaine prennent en compte ce type de mixité spatiale. L'article contribue à combler cette lacune : les auteurs présentent un modèle de localisation résidentielle (standard en économie urbaine) opérant dans un espace structuré par la géométrie spatiale. Plus précisément, d'un côté, un tapis de Sierpinski est utilisé pour rendre compte de l'organisation hiérarchisée de sites urbains et ruraux dans une aire métropolitaine. D'un autre côté, un ménage maximise, sous contra…
Economies d'agglomération et configurations spatiales dans les espaces ruraux
1997
The question to be addressed here is that of the agglomeration/dispersion forces that are likely to account for the location of people and jobs in rural areas and the way they explain spatial patterns in rural areas depending on urban influence. Economic geography models may provide suitable tools with which to investigate the organization of rural areas. We first review these models, focusing on dispersion forces, which rest basically on land consumption and transport costs. We suggest then a set of hypotheses concerning the main forces at work in rural areas. Intensity of agglomeration economies is hypothesized to be related to the urban size, which in turn induces increasing land rents a…
La spiritualité des officiers royaux au début du XVIe siècle : Antoine Robert, bourgeois de Paris et secrétaire du roi de Louis XI à François Ier
1977
Antoine Robert, clerk of the high judicial court in Paris during the reign of Francis 1st, was one of the oldest royal secretaries when he died in 1521, on September. He is known to have given all his personnal assets and properties to the benedictin convent of the Blancs-Manteaux in Paris. His religious behaviour can be studied through three documents relating to his will, foundation and inheritance. So Antoine Robert, rather a rich and well educated laic seems to corroborate the weight of ideas which were brought from Flanders into France by the " Frères de la vie commune " and developped during the Reformation. The biblical and ancient authors' quotations contained in his will show that …
La France périurbaine
2018
International audience
De Délos à Carthage ou comment Salomon Reinach devint africain
2007
Duchêne Hervé. De Délos à Carthage ou comment Salomon Reinach devint Africain. In: Journal des savants, 2006, n°2. pp. 307-345.
La résilience : un concept pour la gestion des risques
2007
Les systemes socio naturels possedent la capacite de resister aux aleas. Les catastrophes les perturbent, mais les font rarement disparaitre. Le concept de resilience, d’origine physique, qui illustre cette capacite s’est enrichi lors de son transfert dans differentes disciplines scientifiques. Certes, la resilience est difficile a mesurer. Mais sa connaissance permet d’adopter de nouvelles formes de gestion des risques naturels ou sociaux. Ces nouvelles formes de gestion sont tres differentes des approches technologiques qui ne sont pas toujours bien adaptees au milieu ou a la societe.
Le territoire comme un système complexe : un concept opératoire pour l'aménagement et la géographie
2006
International audience; Les territoires sont aujourd'hui sur le devant de la scène, pressés de fournir des solutions de développement socio-économique, ou une image cohérente des lieux qu'ils englobent. On assiste à une forte consommation du concept, tout est territoire ; et des concepts qui recouvrent d'autres réalités glissent imperceptiblement vers cette boîte noire qui représente tout et rien à la fois. Visitons le concept sous l'angle de la systémique afin de produire une définition opérationnelle qui permette de resituer le territoire vis-à-vis de l'espace géographique. Le territoire défini se trouve ainsi replacé au cœur de la complexité.