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New evidence on Gibrat’s law for cities

New evidence on Gibrat’s law for cities
City size ; Gibrat's law ; Italy ; Spain ; Statistical distribution ; Statistics ; Twentieth Century ; United States of America ; Urban growth ; Urban structure
This work tests the validity of Gibrat’s law on the growth of cities, from the US, Spain and Italy, for the entire 20th century. First, panel data unit root tests tend to confirm the validity of Gibrat’s law in the upper-tail distribution. Secondly
, when the entire distribution is considered using non-parametric methods, it is found that Gibrat’s law does not hold exactly in the long term. Moreover, the log-normal distribution works well as a description of city size distributions across the whole
2014

Fear and loathing in the San Juan Islands : endangered orcas and the legitimacy of environmental law
This article analyses fear and loathing in the San Juan Islands through the example of endangered orcas and the legitimacy of environmental law. It suggests that significant component of the opposition to these regulations stemmed from a widespread
distrust and fear of the federal government. Given the arguable need for robust state action to protect the environment, on the sea as well as on land, these ambient fears are significant, and pose notable obstacles to the legitimacy of environmental law.
2014

Okun’s law and urban spillovers in US unemployment
Using data for 2002–2010 from 358 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), the A estimate Okun’s law which accounts for national shocks and spatial spillovers in urban areas. Our scale of measurement is changed to the state level, allowing us
2014

Zipf’s Law and Canadian urban growth

Zipf’s Law and Canadian urban growth
This article examines Zipf’s Law and Canadian urban growth. It appears that the dynamics of growth follow a deterministic process related to existing urban size, previous growth and spatial structure. Splitting the Canadian urban system into two
2014

‘Poaching’ – What’s in a name? Debates about law, property, and protection in the context of settler colonialism
2014

Geographical barriers to education law advice : access, communications and public legal services in England and Wales
2014

This study examines whether the performance of Italian regions in providing em-ployment of disabled people according to Law 68/99 can be affected by the perfor-mance of neighboring regions. The results show that good neighbors are important
dualism on the performance of Italian regions with respect to the application of Law 68/99 represents a problem for policy-makers. Hence, they must seriously consider it, especially when regions with low efficiency scores are surrounded by neighbors
2014

The complex nexus between informality and the law : reconsidering unauthorised settlements in light of the concept of nomotropism
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Okun's law, asymmetries and regional spillovers : evidence from Virginia metropolitan statistical areas and the District of Columbia
2014

of law is used to demonstrate the ambiguities due to a gap between de jure and de facto property rights that may not degenerate into anarchy due to rational choices made under common law constraints driven ultimately by the land market. The implications
2014

Law, property and ambiguity : the uses and abuses of legal ambiguity in remaking Istanbul's informal settlements
2014

the removal of street children from public space, as is most evident through Peru’s Law to Protect Minors from Situations of Begging. In the second part of this article, it examines the uneven implementation of policy: street children themselves resist
2014

This paper examines the recovery process for species at risk under the two country's domestic laws : Canada's Species at Risk Act and the American Endangered Species Act. These two countries could be working together to recover shared species
2014

heritage by national, regional and global levels can be decreased by the cultural heritage community which is unterminated in space and time and based on the law and freedom of interpretation instead of possession. - (AM)
2014

of this research suggests that policy makers in Washington risk losing regional support for US drug control policies if US laws that govern the allocation of aid are not effectively implemented.
2014

This article reviews the deadlock in Brazilian urban policy, ten years after the great expectations fueled by the enactment of the City statute Law. Taxation of real estate was one of the principal legal tools created to control the process of urban
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[b1] Dept. of Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, Etats-Unis

the law, and ignorance of how it applies to Aboriginal peoples, is mobilized by the Commissioners to create a space from which Aboriginal peoples could be excluded, and highlight the continuity of this strategy with past debates over Que-bec identity
2014

This study examines the quality of government, understood as low corruption, impartial public services and rule of law – for national and sub-national levels in twenty-seven European Union countries. The European QoG Index shows notable within
2014

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