scholarly journals Regional Resilience in Ireland and the Existence of a Two-Tier Recovery

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barraí Hennebry
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Regional Resilience ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Per Capita

Abstract This paper focuses on the increasing regional disparities in Ireland, especially since the great recession and assesses the degree to which the recovery has been concentrated in urban areas. Ireland was initially affected by the recession to a greater extent than other countries but has recovered strongly. However, this recovery has not been evenly distributed, with some regions showing greater economic resilience. Using descriptive statistics of GDP per capita (PPP), GVA and employment, this paper examines the extent to which the recovery has been a two-tier recovery. The paper finds evidence to suggest that the recovery has been heavily concentrated in Dublin, and to a lesser extent in Cork and Galway, resulting in an urban-rural divide.

scholarly journals The Evaluation of Recession Magnitudes in EU Countries during the Great Recession 2008–2010

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Mazurek
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The aim of this article is to compare 2008-2010 recession magnitudes in individual EU countries. For the comparison the recession magnitude scale was used. The strongest recession during the examined period took place in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Greece and Ireland, while the weakest recessions in the EU occurred in France, Malta and Cyprus. Poland and Slovakia were the only two EU countries that didn’t fall into a recession, that’s why they were not included in the study. The main findings of the paper are that EU19’s recession was much smaller than both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the recent Great Recession in the USA. Furthermore, with the use of a linear econometric model it was found that recession magnitudes in EU countries were directly proportional to the countries’ GDP per capita in 2008 and growth prior to recessions, while countries’ economic openness was indirectly proportional to recession magnitudes, all the relationships being statistically significant.

Immigration and economic resilience in the Great Recession

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802092540
Author(s):  
Xi Huang
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Us ◽  
Capita Income Growth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Us Cities

The 2007–2009 financial crisis has caused economic disruption in many US cities and has drawn considerable academic attention. Despite abundant evidence of immigrants’ economic and social value to urban areas, little research has examined the relationship between immigration and resilience. This article investigates whether immigration enhanced economic resilience to the Great Recession for metropolitan areas in the US. It uses ordinary least squares and instrumental variable regressions to test the immigration effects between 2007 and 2014. The findings indicate that immigration leads to employment and income resilience. On average, metropolitan areas with a larger immigrant population tended to better preserve their growth paths during the Great Recession and to experience greater levels of employment and per capita income growth following the recession.

Local Economic Conditions and Fertility from the Great Depression through the Great Recession

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 236-240
Author(s):  
Jessamyn Schaller ◽  
Price Fishback ◽  
Kelli Marquardt
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Data Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Income Shocks ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Per Capita

This paper reexamines the association between local economic conditions and fertility using a new dataset of county-level birthrates and per capita income in the United States spanning the period 1937-2016. Using a panel data model, we estimate that growth in local income is positively associated with birthrates over our entire sample period and that the strength of that association peaked during the 1960-1990 period and has declined in recent decades. We additionally estimate dynamic responses to local income shocks, finding that birthrates remain elevated for up to four years after a shock.

Touristification, transnational gentrification and urban change in Lisbon: The neighbourhood of Alfama

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (15) ◽  
pp. 3169-3189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Sequera ◽  
Jordi Nofre
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
Tax Benefits

The Great Recession (2008–2014) and the consequent crises in both the national financial and production systems have led the Portuguese administration to adopt tourism and urban rehabilitation as new pivotal sectors to overcome the critical crisis-derived impacts on the economy and society. Moreover, both national and local administrations have deployed a range of legislative initiatives to attract transnational real estate investment and new high-income residents to the country, including generous tax benefits and residency permits for large foreign investors. This is of greater relevance in the historic neighbourhoods of Lisbon city centre, as in the case of Alfama, which has recently been transformed into one of the most important urban hotspots in the country for both local and transnational real estate investors. By focusing on this historic quarter of Lisbon, this paper examines how processes of gentrification and studentification occurring in the area since the late 1990s and early 2000s have been disrupted by recent processes of touristification and Airbnbisation in Alfama, transforming the entire neighbourhood into an ‘outdoor hotel’. The paper concludes by suggesting that, while urban touristification appears today as a new reproduction mechanism of glocal financial capital, the Airbnbisation of former lower-class central urban areas of post-recession southern European cities emerges as the newest, most aggressive form of urban accumulation by dispossession and spatial displacement against the working and middle-lower classes (both locals and migrants) of the ‘tourist city’.

scholarly journals Are Wealthier Times Healthier in Cities? Economic Fluctuations and Mortality in Urban Areas of Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Marcelo Leveau ◽  
José A. Tapia Granados ◽  
Maria Izabel Dos Santos ◽  
Marianela Castillo-Riquelme ◽  
Marcio Alazraqui
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Malignant Neoplasms ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Time Invariant

Objective: To analyze the relationship between economic conditions and mortality in cities of Latin America.Methods: We analyzed data from 340 urban areas in ten countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and El Salvador. We used panel models adjusted for space‐invariant and time‐invariant factors to examine whether changes in area gross domestic product (GDP) per capita were associated with changes in mortality.Results: We find procyclical oscillations in mortality (i.e., higher mortality with higher GDP per capita) for total mortality, female population, populations of 0–9 and 45+ years, mortality due to cardiovascular diseases, malignant neoplasms, diabetes mellitus, respiratory infections and road traffic injuries. Homicides appear countercyclical, with higher levels at lower GDP per capita.Conclusions: Our results reveal large heterogeneity, but in our sample of cities, for specific population groups and causes of death, mortality oscillates procyclically, increasing when GDP per capita increases. In contrast we find few instances of countercyclical mortality.

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