Alberto Díaz-Dapena

University of Oviedo | UNIOVI · Department of Economics

Despite the vast research about discrimination, there is little evidence about how space interacts with it. Our main hypothesis is that a discriminated group could have incentives to stay together, even if the location is less dynamic—avoiding areas where firms do not usually hire workers of their group. A virtuous and/or vicious circle emerges for...

It implements two estimations related to the foundations of info metrics applied to ecological inference. These methodologies assess the lack of disaggregated data and provide an approach to obtaining disaggregated territorial-level data. For more details, see the following references: Fernández-Vázquez, E., Díaz-Dapena, A., Rubiera-Morollón, F. et...

Difference in terms of cost-of-living between rural and urban areas is a frequent theoretical analysis in Regional Economics. Lack of routine measures in rural areas does not usually allow to observe changes in rural costs. We adapt the Big Mac index, typically used to measure purchasing power parity between countries, as a potential quick and inex...

International trade is one of the key spheres of economic policy. It is crucial for a country to understand the dynamics of its export markets to create a coherent strategy to improve its position in global markets. Research in this field is particularly interesting for both economists and policy makers. However, due to a lack of data, most of the...

Urban sprawl is a phenomenon that is generally growing across all continents. As a result, modern city structures need larger areas for similar populations. Few studies have evaluated the effects of sprawl on an important aspect in terms of sustainable development: energy consumption. The aim of this paper is to analyse whether urban sprawl has a s...

In this paper we propose a methodology to obtain social indicators at a detailed spatial scale by combining the information contained in census and sample surveys. Similarly to previous proposals, the method proposed here estimates a model at the sample level to later project it to the census scale. The main novelties of the technique presented are...

In the EU, territorial inequalities in terms of income and poverty have been broadly analysed at the national and regional levels. However, mainly due to the lack of reliable data, very little attention has been paid to territorial inequalities within European regions, i.e., at a more local level, such as in metropolitan areas, cities or neighbourh...

Continental integration processes can alter traditional development axes. Paelinck and Polèse´s work in 1999 explains that in the case of Mexico there is a tension between the U.S. border and the rest of the country: Mexico´s integration in the NAFTA should have reduced the U.S. border attraction, extending the growth to territories located between...

The β-convergence model is based on the neoclassical framework in which the spatial level of analysis is not relevant. These levels will result in decreasing returns. However, local processes of agglomeration, spillover effects, or other forces could operate differently depending on the level of spatial disaggregation. The primary objective of this...

In this paper, Ciccone's (2002) approach is applied to the Spanish case in 2011 but by estimating it using local labor markets (LLMs) instead of NUTS-2 or NUTS-3 regions. It is especially relevant in the case of Spain because the NUTS-3 (provinces) are large regions in comparison with other cases in Europe. From a sample of income taxpayers publish...

The extensive literature on economic convergence has explored a wide variety of ways of measuring convergence in addition to finely tuning and improving the applicable econometric techniques. However, very few contributions analyze the relevance of the spatial level of analysis. Our hypothesis is that studying the convergence at the level of large...

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 states, where there are more data available. However, when there is a wide intra-regional heterogeneity, it is possible to have regional convergence coexisting...

Background: Regional Economics and Economic Growth focus on the question of whether trade leads to a greater concentration of economic activity. Nevertheless, little empirical work has assessed the impact of trade on regional convergence. Therefore, this paper studies the regional convergence that has occurred in Mexico since NAFTA came into effect...

Empirical analysis of regional convergence is normally based on data collected at a geographical scale corresponding to states or large regions (NUTS-2 or NUTS-3 for the case of Europe). However, it could be more realistic to consider that the dynamics generating economic growth take place at a smaller spatial scale. Potential heterogeneity across...

Regional Economics and Economic Growth focus on the question of whether trade leads to a greater concentration of economic activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore this paper studies the regional convergence from trade in Mexico after NAFTA. Unlike previous papers, working with municipal-...

The concentration of economic activity across space is a stylized fact of the literature in regional and urban economics. In the case of the United States (US), only 35 counties at the top of the distribution, out of a total of 3,138, generate more than one third of the country’s total personal income. Furthermore, US urban structure follows Zipf’s...