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Stefano Fachin and Alberto Brugnoli |
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''Testing economic geography: Italy, 1951-1991'' |
( 2001, Vol. 18 No.1 ) |
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A rural country in the 1950's, Italy is now a large industrial economy. In this paper we show through a joint analysis of spatial autocorrelation and concentration of employment that this development has not been driven by centre-periphery mechanisms. |
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JEL: R1 - General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data) O5 - Economywide Country Studies: General |
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Manuscript Received : Jun 14 2001 | | Manuscript Accepted : Jul 24 2001 |
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