Technological Change, Employment and Spatial Dynamics (eBook, PDF)

Proceedings of an International Symposium on Technological Change and Employment: Urban and Regional Dimensions Held at Zandvoort, The Netherlands April 1-3, 1985
Redaktion: Nijkamp, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 469
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783642465789
• Artikelnr.: 53090331

Autorenporträt

Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and in Economic Geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling, multicriteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental and resource management, and sustainable development. In the past years he has focussed his research in particular on new quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructure management and environmental protection. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles.
In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Triangle of Industrial Dynamics, Labour Markets and Spatial Systems.- A: General Reflections.- 2. Technical Change, Employment and Metropolitan Adjustment.- 3. Technology and New Regional Growth Complexes: The Economics of Discontinuous Spatial Development.- 4. Technological Change in the Service Sector: Urban and Regional Implications.- 5. New Technology and Regional Development Policy.- 6. Industrial Interdependence via Information Technology and Transport Interaction - Employment Impacts.- 7. Industrial Organisation, Innovation and Employment.- B: Actual Trends.- 8. Spatial Dimensions of Technological Developments and Employment Effects.- 9. The Impact of Innovations on Service Employment.- 10. The De-Industrialisation of the Federal Republic of Germany and its Spatial Implications.- 11. Spatial Dimensions of Innovation and Employment: Some Dutch Results.- 12. Technological Change and Employment Patterns: The Greek Case.- 13. Segmentation Theories and Manpower Policy in Dutch Cities.- 14. Local Entrepreneurial Initiatives and Central Government.- 15. High-Technology and Employment: Some Information on The Netherlands.- C: Modelling.- 16. Adaptive Economising, Technological Change and the Demand for Labour in Disequilibrium.- 17. On the Incongruous Spatial Employment Dynamics.- 18. A Stochastic Theory for Residential and Labour Mobility Including Travel Networks.- 19. Technological Change and Labour Migration in a General Spatial Interaction System.- 20. On the Production and Diffusion of Technological Change.- 21. Innovation and the Urban Life-Cycle: Production, Location and Income Distribution Aspects.- 22. Industrial Applications of Information Technology: Speed of Introduction and Labour Force Competence.- 23. Capital Mobility, Labour Demand and R&DInvestment in Austria in a Multiregional Context: A First Attempt at Econometric Modelling.- 24. Technological Change and Regional Employment Research.- List of Contributors.