This paper constructs and elaborates a theoretical model of urban economic efficiency
(UEE) from the perspective of urban scaling law. A framework of urban economic analysis is …

Economic resilience has been a popular issue in recent years. Along with the consideration
of severe shocks caused by the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and globalization of industry …

Existing research on regional diversification primarily focuses on relatedness within
industries or occupations, whilst neglecting the cross‐effects between the two. This study …

How are skills struggled over in occupations transforming through evolving technologies?
This article contributes a feminist labor geography perspective amidst reinvigorated interest …

We empirically analyse the impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth in
the US and China. Integrating the heterogeneity of housing supply helps determine how a …

Background Recent social and economic developments on the global stage indicate that
competitiveness is more important than ever, not only for nations operating at the macro …

The paper proposes a new theoretical explanation for the spatial sorting that the skill
distribution has fatter tails in big cities. The ownership of the house make people face the …

It is more than three decades since the publication of Finegold and Soskice's (1988)
influential article 'The failure of training in Britain: Analysis and prescription'. This widely …

Since workplace skills present diverse dimensions of a worker's ability, it has recently
received renewed interest by researchers examining the growth of cities. The purpose of the …

An increasing number of studies confirm that regional diversification is path dependent, with
new industries building on pre-existing ones. However, these studies typically overlook the …