Quality of government and regional resilience in the European Union. Evidence from the Great Recession

This paper examines the relationship between quality of government and regional resilience in the European Union during the Great Recession. The results show that the quality of government is an important factor when shaping the regional reaction to the crisis. Our estimates reveal that higher quality of government is associated with greater regional resilience over the Great Recession. This is partly due to the role played in this context by spatial spillovers induced by the quality of government in neighbouring regions. The observed link between governance and regional resilience is robust to the inclusion in the analysis of different explanatory variables that may affect both government quality and regional resilience. Likewise, our findings do not depend on the specific dimension of governance considered, the estimation method or the econometric specification employed to capture the nature of spatial spillovers.     

"空间不匹配"假设与城市弱势群体就业问题:美国相关研究及其对中国的启示

通过系统研究美国学者60年代以来关于“空间不匹配”的假设与部分大城市弱势群体(如低收入居民、少数民族和妇女)就业问题逐一梳理了美国学者如何看待大城市弱势群体就业障碍问题以及他们所主要采用的研究方法和模型的演进过程．在此基础上．结合国内的实际情况．给国内学术界对城市弱势群体就业和再就业的研究提出4点借鉴和启示。     

城市空间结构与就业岗位分布差异的定量描述——以上海市青浦新城为例

基于《上海市青浦城区总体规划修改(2010)》、青浦区第二次经济普查和人口六普数据,运用互斥度、分布差异度、分布差异数和效率——负荷差异数4项指标,系统地描述了上海市青浦新城城市空间结构与就业岗位的分布差异.得出青浦新城城市空间结构与就业岗位的分布差异特点如下:①城乡建设用地总面积、城市道路长度与就业岗位的分布差异较小;居住用地、公共服务设施用地、工业用地、村庄建设用地的面积与就业岗位的分布差异有高有低;教育设施、居民服务设施、医疗福利设施、文化娱乐设施的规模与就业岗位的分布差异较大;②总体就业岗位数与城市空间结构的分布差异较小;制造业、外资企业、港澳台资企业、污染密集产业的就业岗位与居住用地面积、教育设施规模、居民服务设施规模、医疗福利设施规模、文化娱乐设施规模的分布差异较大;生产性服务业、批发和零售业的就业岗位与城乡建设用地总面积、工业用地面积、村庄建设用地面积的分布差异较大;③分布差异显著的单元有的就业岗位高度集中,有的以居住功能为主.