The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical
access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion …

Using travel time to cities of different sizes, we map populations across an urban–rural
continuum to improve on the standard dichotomous representations of urban–rural …

Las sociedades rurales de América Latina están atravesando grandes transformaciones y
sus habitantes experimentan estas tensiones de diversas formas. Los territorios rurales y …

Following a couple of decades of offshoring, the fear today is of reshoring. Using
administrative data on Mexican exports by municipality, sector and destination from 2004 to …

In Sub-Saharan Africa, unprecedented population growth, concomitant with limited
industrialisation and job creation, have changed the configurations of rural-urban linkages in …

We analyze the effect of an exogenous commodity shock on youth long-run unemployment,
and the causal mechanisms that underlie this relationship. We use Chile as a study case …

En el criterio oficial para definir las zonas urbanas y rurales en México se considera
principalmente la dimensión de tamaño poblacional. Así, son localidades urbanas aquellas …

This paper analyzes the local impact of a natural resource shock on female and male wages
as well as the gender wage gap. We contrast three hypotheses using the Dutch disease …

Long-distance commuting (LDC) as a strategy of labor factor mobility has become relevant
in recent decades, mainly in those economies characterized by a significant relative weight …

A central question in Evolutionary Economic Geography is why regions differ in their ability
to diversify and thus retain or expand their competitive position. Economic geography has …