Given the different income inequalities between rural, urban and metropolitan areas in Paraguay, the standard Roy model predicts the possibility that a selection bias of rural metropolitan migrants exists. Based on an extended Roy model, which allows for correlation between labor market characteristics and moving cost, I use a switching regression model to evaluate if migrants from rural to met...

Regional governments in general, and metropolitan governments in particular, are under threat almost everywhere. Despite an apparent increase in the level of awareness of and the need for region-wide co-operation, revenue sharing and direct political accountability within metropolitan regions, the few formal metropolitan governments that do exist to meet these needs are in retreat. This paper r...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the relationship between deprivation and mortality is weaker among residents of non-metropolitan areas of England and Wales than among residents of metropolitan areas. DESIGN This study compared mortality, expressed as standardised mortality ratios (SMRs), in residents of metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts at three levels of deprivation classifie...

Purpose The study investigates the influence of financial transparency on citizens' trust and revenue paying behaviour citizens local governments in sub-Saharan Africa. It relies theories stewardship public choice explaining relationship between transparency, willingness to pay. Design/methodology/approach applied a Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) survey data 404 respon...

In the access to peer-to-peer sharing of goods and services through a technology platform, which is known as economy, there no consensus on factors that motivate consumers. This study aimed investigate moderating effect perceived risk consumers’ participation in economy developing country. Following quantitative approach, survey was conducted among 400 consumers Metropolitan Zone Puebla City, M...

In the literature on measured wage inequality, only one recent study, by Glaeser and Mare′ (2001), has focused on the enormous wage gap between urban and non-urban workers in the United States. In the present paper, I replicate and extend Glaeser and Mare′’s original empirical work, and I present a new interpretation of the evidence based on my re-estimation. Contrary to Glaeser and Mare′’s the...

BACKGROUND: Limited information is available about teenage pregnancy and childbearing in rural areas, even though approximately 20 percent of the nation's youth live in rural areas. Identifying whether there are differences in the teenage birth rate (TBR) across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas is important, because these differences may reflect modifiable ecological-level influences such...