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Exploiting bright pearls hidden in the Pandoras box of Japanese urban growth
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- Issue Date
- 2009-04
- Citation
- Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol.22 No.2, pp. 217-243
- Keywords
- City growth ; Ethnic (Cultural) diversity ; Panel ; Accounting ; Factor productivity growth
- Abstract
- This paper attempts to look into the growth sources of the
advanced capitalistic but idiosyncratic Japanese society. Crossurban
data sets of Japan are put on the macro-anatomical table
using both panel data of 13 largest cities covering 1994-2004 and
time-series data of 10 cities for 1984-2004 plus one additional city
Yokohama (1985-2005). Despite some mutually incongruous and
diversified data sets for those cities over years, efforts for both
congruent economic analysis and econometric experiments are
made to identify the marginal effects of theoretically relevant key
factors on the urban growth. Accounting for the urban growth
and growth source analysis using Japanese urban data conforms
fairly well to the conventional theory related to production function.
One aspect of cultural diversity, namely, the ethnic diversity
partakes to produce statistically significant contribution to the
growth of cities in Japan. But limited and internally inconsistent
data of other important cultural factors such as religion, sports,
and other cultural activities does not allow us to test their effects
on urban growth, but future supplement of these data promises
to be interesting path to explore further.
- ISSN
- 1225-0279
- Language
- English
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