Restructuring Regional Identity

Regional Restructuring and Urban Regimes:

Finance Industry Restructuring: Implications for Regional Australia

The Australian financial system is undergoing a period of rapid change driven by the introduction of new technologies, changes in regulation and the emergence of new competitive forces. Consumers of financial services are being faced with an array of new products and charges as individual financial institutions respond to these challenges. Some consumers in smaller regional centres have experie...

Restructuring Regional Health Systems In Russia

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Russia inherited a publicly-funded health system that promised universal access to comprehensive services. The system was fragmented and financially unsustainable, characterized by over-reliance on curative and inpatient care, with incentives that encouraged providers to hospitalize patients for lengthy periods. Underfunding of the h...

Testing the regional restructuring hypothesis in western Germany

In this paper we test the importance of the regional restructuring hypothesis by investigating whether the internal migration flows in Western Germany can be explained by employment changes, on the basis of data of out-migration of employed workers and employment in 75 regions over the period 1982-1997 for each year separately. Starting from a conditional probability model for the unobserved in...

Regional Identity Preservation Using the Internet