| 1. |
|
|
| 2. |
- Florida, Richard, et al.
(författare)
-
There Goes the Neighborhood : How and Why Bohemians, Artists and Gays Affect Regional Housing Values
-
Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is often conjectured that artistic, bohemian, and gay populations increase housing values in the neighborhoods and communities in which they reside. But these groups are small, and the evidence of their effect on housing prices is anecdotal and limited. We argue that artists, bohemians and gays affect housing values through two kinds of mechanisms: an aesthetic-amenity premium; and a tolerance or open culturepremium. To examine this, we introduce a combined measure of bohemian and gay populations – the Bohemian-Gay Index. We conduct statistical analyses to test the performance of this measure against other variables expected to affect housing values– income, wages, technology, and human capital. The findings indicate that the Bohemian-Gay Index has a substantial direct relation with housing values across all permutations of the model and across all region sizes. It remains positive andsignificant alongside variables for regional income, wages, technology, and human capital. The Bohemian-Gay Index also has a substantial direct correlation with other key variables, particularly income, indicating an additional indirect effect on housing values.
|
|
| 3. |
|
|
| 4. |
- Mellander, Charlotta
(författare)
-
Introducing a New Technology : The Location and Diffusion Process of ICT
-
Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper studies the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in Sweden during its development boom from 1990 - 2000, with a focus on locationand diffusion, using Stockholm and Jönköping as reference leader and follower region. The location and diffusion pattern of firms within the sector is analyzed, based on a telephone interview survey. According to theory, new, non-standardized techniques are frequently initiated and promoted in leader regions. In order to leave space for new activities, standardized and maturing techniques must gradually beremoved from the leading region to follower regions. Also, non-standardized ICT products and ICT services are assumed to be distance sensitive; that is, there is a need for close contacts between buyer and seller for production and consumption, increasing the importance of the nearby local market. The results show that the ICT industry was introduced earlier and faster in the Stockholm region. There was a significant difference in the software/hardware ratio between the regions, and Stockholm had a significantly larger share of its production within the ICT service sector. The Stockholm firms also had considerably more spin-offs and multi establishments.
|
|
| 5. |
- Mellander, Charlotta
(författare)
-
Occupational Distribution within Swedish Industries : An Identification and Market Relation Analysis
-
Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper sheds new light on the Swedish industry structure, by defining it through its occupational and educational structure. It is a merge of all Swedish private firmsand all individuals employed within those firms, aggregated over industry, for theyear 2001. Education is separated from creative occupations, and we also identify industries with the largest concentration of service and manufacturing occupations.The growth pattern within the industry segments between 1993 and 2001 is provided, and an examination of the spatial distribution. While there is a closerelation between larger markets and knowledge, creative and service industries, wecan detect a weaker link to the manufacturing industries. The effect from being located in the main urban area within the urban region, as well as within one of the three metropolitan regions, is highly significant for all industries, but relativelyweaker for the manufacturing industry. The results also imply that diversity andcreativity, in terms of the number of establishments, closely relate to the metropolitan regions. The concentration of activities, in terms of the number of employees, is more driven by large markets in general.
|
|
| 6. |
- Mellander, Charlotta
(författare)
-
Talent, Technology and Regional Wage Levels in Sweden
-
Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- While there is consensus on the importance of human capital to economicdevelopment, debate takes shape around two central issues. First, how is humancapital best measured? Second, there is debate over the factors that yield thegeographic distribution of human capital in the first place. With regard to the firstquestion, this work reveals that occupational or “creative class” measures tend tooutperform educational measures in accounting for regional wages per capita acrossour sample of Swedish regions. In view of the second question, universities, servicediversity, and tolerance affect the distribution of human capital, though in differentways and thus play complimentary roles in the geographic distribution of talent.
|
|
| 7. |
- Mellander, Charlotta, et al.
(författare)
-
The rise of the mega-region
- 2008
-
Ingår i: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1752-1378 .- 1752-1386. ; 1:3, s. 459-476
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper develops new data on mega-regions. It takes issue with theories of activity is being more widely decentralized—‘ globalization which argue that global economicthe world is flat’. We use a global dataset of night-time light emissions to produce an objectively consistent set of mega-regions for the data to estimate globe. We draw on high-resolution populationthe population of each of these regions. We then process the light data in combination with national gross domestic product (GDP) to produce rough but useful regional estimates of economic activity. We also present estimates of technological and scientific innovation.
|
|
| 8. |
- Credit, Kevin, et al.
(författare)
-
Third places, the connective fibre of cities and high-tech entrepreneurship
- 2024
-
Ingår i: Regional studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0034-3404 .- 1360-0591.
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban 'third places' foster informal interactions and face-to-face contact that is critical to the development of new innovations and start-up businesses. Our research utilises extensive microdata in combination with telephone interviews with over 200 start-up companies in Stockholm, Sweden. Our findings indicate that access to third places has a significant impact on the number of new high-tech start-ups (both by entrepreneur place of residence and work) in their vicinity. This suggests that third places play a demonstrable role in innovation and economic growth.
|
|
| 9. |
- Florida, Richard, et al.
(författare)
-
The geography of COVID-19 in Sweden
- 2022
-
Ingår i: The annals of regional science. - : Springer. - 0570-1864 .- 1432-0592. ; 68, s. 125-150
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the geographic factors that are associated with the spread of COVID-19 during the first wave in Sweden. We focus particularly on the role of place-based factors versus factors associated with the spread or diffusion of COVID-19 across places. Sweden is a useful case study to examine the interplay of these factors because it did not impose mandatory lockdowns and because there were essentially no regional differences in the pandemic policies or strategies during the first wave of COVID-19. We examine the role of place-based factors like density, age structures and different socioeconomic factors on the geographic variation of COVID-19 cases and on deaths, across both municipalities and neighborhoods. Our findings show that factors associated with diffusion matter more than place-based factors in the geographic incidence of COVID-19 in Sweden. The most significant factor of all is proximity to places with higher levels of infections. COVID-19 is also higher in places that were hit earliest in the outbreak. Of place-based factors, the geographic variation in COVID-19 is most significantly related to the presence of high-risk nursing homes, and only modestly associated with factors like density, population size, income and other socioeconomic characteristics of places.
|
|
| 10. |
- Klaesson, Johan, 1967-, et al.
(författare)
-
Social interactions and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy : Evidence from a full population study in Sweden
- 2023
-
Ingår i: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 18:11
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate whether an individual's information milieu-an individual's residential neighborhood and co-workers-affects the decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The decision to accept or refuse a vaccine is intensely personal and involves the processing of information about phenomena likely to be unfamiliar to most individuals. One can thus expect an interplay between an individual's level of education and skills and the information processing of others whom with whom she can interact and whose decision she can probe and observe. Using individual-level data for adults in Sweden, we can identify the proportion of an individual's neighborhood and workplace who are unvaccinated as indicators of possible peer effects. We find that individuals with low levels of educational attainment and occupational skills are more likely to be unvaccinated when exposed to other unvaccinated individuals at work and in the residential neighborhood. The peer effects in each of these information milieus further increases the likelihood of not getting vaccinated-with the two acting as information channels that reinforce one another.
|
|
