Rural depopulation and income convergence

Income Convergence In Iranian Regions

Income Convergence in a Rural, Majority African-American Region

This paper revisits the issue of income convergence by examining the question of whether poorer Census Block Groups have been catching up with wealthier Census Block Groups over the 1980-2000 period. The dataset consists of 161 Census Block Groups in Alabama’s west-central Black Belt region. Estimates of a spatial lag model provide support for the conditional convergence hypothesis and explain ...

The Depopulation of Rural Areas and the Farming System

Depopulation of rural areas can entail negative externalities. This paper examines, inter alia, the influence of the farming system on depopulation processes. The population change in rural communities in Switzerland (family-based farming system) and in the German Land Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (fordistic farming system) is explained through regression analysis by the proportion of persons ...

Migration to Rural Counties: An Example from the North-Eastern Poland Keywords: Depopulation, rural development, quality of life, living conditions, income

income convergence in iranian regions

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