We employ a detailed skill database from Brazil to investigate how skill relatedness
influences structural change in a develo** country. We find a positive relationship …

Forests are the main body of carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems and forest
aboveground biomass (AGB) is an important manifestation of forest carbon sequestration …

Migration has far-reaching implications for regional-economic growth and spatial disparities.
This paper explores the role played by migration in spatial-economic development in …

The dependence of urban bus transit on their covered streets is expected to be significant
and heterogeneous in megacities. Using a bipartite network approach, we develop several …

The objective of this research is to examine growth and convergence processes in the
provinces of Ecuador, considering sectoral productivity as an analysis variable. To do so …

This article examines regional economic convergence in two federal contexts: Brazil and the
European Union. Despite many differences, in the last decades these two economies have …

Empirical analysis of regional convergence does not focus its attention on the spatial level of
the data. Most of the time, the analysis is made at the aggregated level, by large regions or …

This paper analyses the impact of economic externalities on the local growth emphasizing
the industrial, geographic, and temporal scope of agglomeration economies. Thus, we …

This article draws on a large occupational database of 2514 occupations required for 581
industries in 558 microregions and five macroregions in Brazil and shows that occupational …

This article evaluates the effect of digitalization and credit access in boosting regional
growth performance across 38 districts in East Java over the 2010-2021 period. Using …