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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures, Tables and Maps -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Spatial Consequences of Structural Change -- Part A: Spatial Aspects of Innovation and Knowledge Production -- 2 Local Opportunities and Innovative Behaviour: A Meta-Analytic Study of European Cities -- 3 An Evolutionary Approach to Firm Dynamics: Adaptation and Path Dependency -- 4 Agglomeration and Industrial Innovation in Space: An Empirical Analysis -- 5 Expenditure and Knowledge based Regional Impacts Associated with a University: Some Empirical Evidence -- Part B: Tourism, Infrastructure and Regional Development -- 6 Incentive Programs for Rural Tourism in Israel: A Tool for Promoting Rural Development -- 7 The Economic Impact of Tourism in Israel: A Multiregional Input-Output Analysis -- 8 The Impact of Road Infrastructure on Productivity, Employment and Regional Inequalities in Europe -- 9 Transport Infrastructure Investments and Regional Development: Literature Review -- Part C: Regional Development: Modelling and Policy -- 10 Employment Forecasting in Fryslân in the Age of Economic Structural Changes -- 11 The Spatial Distribution of Employment in the European Union: 1950-1990 -- 12 Economic Dynamics in the Randstad Holland: Do Agglomeration Economies still Exist? -- 13 Conclusion: Structural Economic Change and Regional Development

"In this article we use uniquely comparable data sets from two very different settings to examine how exogenous economic transformations affect the likelihood and selectivity of international out-migration. Specifically, we use data from the Mexican Migration Project to construct event history files predicting first U.S. trips from seven communities in the state of Veracruz, which until recently sent very few migrants abroad. Similarly, using data from the Polish Migration Project, we derive comparable event history files predicting first trips to Germany from four Polish communities, which also sent few migrants abroad before the 1980s. Our analyses suggest that the onset of structural adjustment in both places had a significant effect in raising the probability of international migration, even when controlling for a set of standard variables specified by other theories to influence migration propensity, such as die size of the binational income gap and various indicators of human and social capital." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Introduction -- Framing the Approach -- Economic Dualism as a Structural Constraint of South Eastern Europe Economies and Societies -- The Post-Communist Period (1989-2000). Land Reform Between Property Rights Restoration and the Reorganization of Work and Production Relationships in Agriculture -- The Pre-Communist Period (1864-1945). Agriculture Between the Creation of Market Institutions and the Planned Economy -- The Communist Period (1945-1989). From Small Peasant Holdings to Large-Scale and Collective Farms -- Conclusions: Ideas and Policies in Comparative Historical Perspective.

This paper briefly reviews the existing Australian situation in respect of urban person and freight transport. It identifies those aspects likely to be sensitive to structural economic change and related changes. The extent of such sensitivity is discussed using such empirical evidence as is available. In particular the paper examines the possible effects on urban transport of such factors as changes in the demographic structure, changes in energy, institutional and political change, and technological change, as well as structural economic change.

Using a number of different quantitative measures, this article demonstrates that variations in the degree of social democratic decline in nine European countries can be viewed in large measure as a product of two structural economic changes: (1) the shift to smaller units of production; and (2) the growth of private nonindustrial employment. The article explores several causal arguments linking these variables to social democratic decline, and it marshals Swedish and British time-series data to show that the distribution of manufacturing employment by production unit helps explain both the rise and the decline of social democracy.

Presents the shift to smaller units of industrial production and the growth of private nonindustrial employment as determinants of the decline in trade unions and social democratic political parties; Western Europe.