Puga, Diego (1996) Urbanisation patterns: European vs less developed countries. CEPDP (305). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.
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Abstract
We develop a model in which the interaction between transport costs, increasing returns, and labour migration across sectors and regions creates a tendency for urban agglomeration. Demand from rural areas favours urban dispersion. European urbanisation took place mainly in the XIX Century, with higher costs of spatial interaction, weaker economics of scale, and less elastic supply of labour to the urban sector than in LDCs today. These factors, together with a bias in the transport networks of LDCs towards serving larger cities, could help explain why European countries have developed balanced urban systems while primate cities dominate in LDCs.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://cep.lse.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 1996 Diego Puga |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| JEL classification: | F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F15 - Economic Integration R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2008 12:05 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 22:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/20656 |
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