Growth and Change

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Volume 57, issue 1, 2026

Development of Takeaway Delivery and Urban–Rural Wage Sorting

Ziming Gao

Migration Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A New York City Case Study of Legacy Routes, Migration Histories and Class Difference

Helena Gu and Peter B. Nelson

The Long‐Term Rise and Geographic Concentration of Labor Market Detachment

Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz

Higher Education Expansion and the Pattern of Regional Specialization: Evidence From China

Xin Ma, Zhuoran Gao and Tao Huang

The Inflow of Highly Educated Migrants and Its Impact on the Wages of Highly Educated Locals: Exploring the Moderating Role of Regional Economic Diversity

Daewu Ju

Assessing the Impact of Saudi Vision 2030 on Urban Mobility Transitions: The Case of Riyadh

Saad AlQuhtani

Structural Drivers of GHG Emissions in Sergipe and the Rest of Brazil: A Decomposition Analysis, 2011–2018

João Paulo Pereira de Melo, Luiz Carlos de Santana Ribeiro, Lúcio Flávio da Silva Freitas and Kênia Barreiro de Souza

Beyond Core‐Periphery: A Multidimensional Typology of Brazilian Regional Inventive Capacity

Ludmilla Rodrigues Costa Gonçalves and Eduardo Gonçalves

Unpacking Endogeneity: Growth, Discontent and Cohesion Policy in the EU Regions

George Petrakos, Stavroula Alexiou and Alexandra Sotiriou

Bridging the Regional Innovation Gap: The Driving Role of Digital Governance in China

Liping Li, Jie Peng, Bin Hu and Peiyu Li

Human Capital and Regional Resilience: Nevada Computable General Equilibrium Approach

Jaewon Lim, Euijune Kim and Aaron Colletta

Asymmetric Impact of Urbanization on Food Security in Africa: Exploring the Moderating Role of Information and Communication Technology Using a Panel Quantile ARDL‐PMG Approach

Bello Nasiru Abdullahi, Hongmei Wang, Nazir Muhammad Abdullahi, Deng Baisheng, Buhari Nazifi and Taye Melese Mekie

Does Digital Infrastructure Promote the Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises? Evidence From China

Xiujuan Lan, Zheneng Hu, Xuan Pei and Chuanhao Wen

Creative Economy and Slum Incidence in Developing Countries: Effect and Channels

Mbouombouo Adamou Nji Nchange and Dieudonné Mignamissi

Bridging or Widening the Gap? How Urban Growth and Openness Shape Infrastructure's Impact on Inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Yousif Abdelbagi Abdalla, Atif Awad, Adam Yahya Jafeel, M. Azhar Hussain and Ilhan Ozturk

The Effect of Land Transfer on Rural Collective Action: Evidence From Guizhou Province, China

Jiayi Wang

Intercity Distance and Functional Complementarity in Chinese Megaregions

Yixiao Wang and Bindong Sun

Co‐Creating an Urban Circularity Questionnaire: A Workshop Approach With Experts

Rengin Aslanoğlu, Loredana Ivan, Cihan Kayaçetin, Qiuxian Li, Joost van Hoof and Jeroen Dikken

Beyond Path Dependence: Local State Interventions and Firm Export Upgrading in China

Qi Guo, Haoyu Zhang, Yi Zhou, Zhiding Hu and Tinglin Wang

High‐Tech Regions as Innovators of Traditional Technologies

Ruoran Liu and Joanna Ganning

What Causes Housing Price Decline? A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on 267 Prefecture‐Level Cities in China

Guangping Liu and Xinlin Guo

The Conditional Impact of Recent Economic, Global, and Technological Challenges on Productivity Growth in EU Regions

Maria Tsiapa

Does Industrial Agglomeration Enhance Firms' Innovation Performance? An Empirical Study From Industrial Zones in Shanghai

Yi Zhang, Yuefang Si and Hanyan Sun

Urban Concentration and Economic Growth: The Role of Second‐Tier Cities

Dongyeol Lee

As Climate Risks Intensify: How Do Key Digital Technologies Promote Pollution Reduction and Carbon Mitigation? Evidence From China

Shengling Zhang, Ruibing Ji, Wei Dou and Yu Hao

Decentralization Dividends: Can Expanding Land Approval Autonomy Improve the Quality and Scale of Urban Land Use Efficiency?

Fenghui Sun, Hengzhou Xu and Kunzai Niu

Inter‐City Collaborative Innovation and Synchronization of Regional Economic Growth: Evidence From China

Yijie Li and Jiansheng You

The Role of Career Stages and Skills in the Internal Migration Patterns of Shrinking Regions in Korea: A Spatial Shift‐Share Analysis

Sangyun Jeong and Up Lim

Harmony or Disharmony? The Effect of Organized Industrial Zones on Urban Development/Growth: The Case of Bursa

Merve Dilman Gokkaya and Yalcin Yildirim

Digital Inclusive Finance, Spatial Spillover and Regional Consumption Inequality Mitigation in China: A Perspective From the Consumption Potential Release

Zixin Yin and Ning Chang

Green Borrowed Size: A Crucial Mechanism to Promote Green Innovation in Peripheral Cities

Tongbin Yang, Xuexu Piao and Guodong Wang

Volume 56, issue 4, 2025

Addressing Food Security in Sub‐Saharan African Region: The Role of Financial Sector Development and Informality

Elliot Boateng, Janet Dzator, Mary Amponsah and Michael Dzator

Intelligent Pathway: Artificial Intelligence and the Path to Energy Sustainability

Zhiyuan Gao, Mengwen Hua, Ziying Jia, Lianqing Li and Yu Hao

Economic Resource Spatial Spillover and Local Government Policy Innovation Adoption in China

Li Ye and Jiebing Wu

Is There a Solow Productivity Paradox in China’s Manufacturing Industry: Threshold Effect of Factor Expansion Constraint

Xuehong Zhu, Yu Dong and Qiong Xu

Unveiling Growth in Nearshoring Regions

Roberta Capello and Roberto Dellisanti

Urban Growth Predictions: Optimization of Urbanization Strategy for Risk Mitigation in Medium‐Sized Cities

Dilşah Erkek, Ceren Yağci and Fatih İşcan

‘Left Behind Places’: Examining the Evolution of a Concept With an Application to the Canadian Regional Development Context

Morgan Sleeth, Mylène Riva, Kevin Manaugh and Sébastien Breau

Regional Determinants of Product Innovations in Start‐Ups Across Urban and Rural Regions in Germany

Blom Meijering and Torsten Schunder

Land Use Transition and City Desirability: Case Study of Cache County Over Two Decades

Megh Bahadur Kc

Local Government Proliferation and Fiscal Efficiency: Evidence From Ghana

Zurikanen Iddrisu, Abdul‐Salam Jahanfo Abdulai, Erfan Kefayat and Mandela Gadri

Is Seoul the Pound‐for‐Pound Champion of Information and Communication Service Growth?: A New Size‐Free Shift‐Share Approach

WooPyeong Yi

Regional Economic Resilience: The Cases of Brazil, Chile and Colombia

Cristian Delgado‐Bello, Andres Maroto and Miguel Atienza

How the Digital Economy Reshaped the Economic Geography: Evidence From 284 Cities in China

Bianjiang Ma, Qing Wang and Zhangqi Zhong

A Social Approach to Environmental Sustainability: The Nexus Well‐Being, Tourism, Digitalization and Renewable Energy in Scandinavian Countries

Cem Işık, Serdar Ongan, Buket Aydın, Rahman Aydın and İlyas Kays İmamoğlu

Why Is It Possible for China to Reduce Its Dependence on Land Expropriation? An Analysis on the Land‐Expropriation Kuznets Curve

Yang Liu and Siliang Wang

Are College Towns Really Recession Proof?

Reese Manternach, Aakansha Jain, Peter F. Orazem and Levi Soborowicz

Unlocking Regional Economic Resilience With Technological Network Robustness: Evidence From China

Xinyu Yan, Hua Xing and Qiliang Mao

Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Inhibit or Promote Firm Financialization? New Perspective on Financial Motivation

Yanwei Lyu, Zewei Zhang, Yangyang Bai and Jinning Zhang

Improving Locally While Competing Globally: Network Effects on Innovation Performance in Cities

Pablo Galaso and Sergio Palomeque

Interconnected Cities, Integrated Markets: Exploring the Impact of Transport Networks on Labor Market Integration in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Xueqing Liu, Ben Derudder, Bo Wang and Frank Witlox

High‐Speed Railway, Knowledge Complexity and Regional Inequalities

Zhaoyingzi Dong, Jiayan Shi and Yuanshuo Xu

Does Transportation Infrastructure Alleviate Urbanization Imbalance: The Perspective of Urban Spatial Structure

Pin Lv, Tongbin Yang and Xuexu Piao

Networking Characteristics and Innovation Effects of Complementary Technological Cooperation Among Chinese Cities

Hongji Chen, Pengxin Chen and Gang Zeng

Urban Informality, Housing Insecurity and “Bulldozer Urbanism” in Global South Cities: Evidence From Selected Slum Communities in Accra, Ghana

Reforce Okwei, Elmond Bandauko, Desmond Adjaison, Lina Adeetuk, Thelma Akyea and Godwin Arku

Understanding Migration Dynamics in Taiwan's New Town Development: The Role of Housing Affordability and Infrastructure

Chien‐Wen Peng, Yong‐Jyun Tu and Chien‐Hao Fu

Toward Clean Air in the City: Does Financial Inclusion Matter?

Shuangshuang Fan, Shuqun Yang, Hongyun Huang, Tomas Baležentis and Ying Liu

Health and Older Adult Return Migration in Canada

K. Bruce Newbold

From Survival to Growth: Unleashing the Entrepreneurial and Small Business Development Through Innovation in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Suleman Bawa

Rooting in the Land: The Role of Social Networks in Migrant Workers' Settlement Intentions

Liangliang Zhang and Haixin Liu

The Effect and Mechanism of Labor Mobility on the Subjective Well‐Being of Urban Native Labor: Empirical Evidence From China

Jingting Yu and Guanghao Wu

From Engines to Algorithms? Regional Innovation and Implementation of Automated Driving Technologies in Germany

Lennart Schott and Kerstin J. Schaefer

Neighborly Gains? The Green Spillover Effects of Low‐Carbon City Pilot Policy

Huiru Wei, Jie Zhang and Kuiran Yuan

Zoned in: The Influence of Land Use Policy on Canadian Craft Breweries

Roger M. Picton and Vanessa Mathews

The Role of Urban Public Service Inclusivity in Promoting Migrant Entrepreneurship: Evidence From Chinese Cities

Lanxin Zhang and Yanping Pu

Non‐Linear Effects of Industrial Relocation on Regional Development: Green Growth or Pollution Leakage?

Han Zou

The Duet of Ice and Snow: How the Ice‐Snow Economy Is Reshaping China's Urban Network?

Jiaming Hao, Songsong Li, Yiwa Xu and Weiqian Zhang

Driving Factors of Urban Growth: A Systematic Review*

Kiana Etemadi, Hashem Dadashpoor and Josef Novotný

Volume 56, issue 3, 2025

Effect of Agglomeration Externalities of Adjacent Retail Areas on Commercial Business Continuity in Seoul, Korea

Dongjun Kim, Changhyo Yi and Seungil Lee

How Pharmaceutical Innovation Benefits From Spatial Aggregation: A Perspective Based on R&D Cooperation Networks

Fusen Zhao and Jianting Fan

Driving Bargaining Power Through Landlocked to Land‐Linked Economy: The Case of Kazakhstan and Belt and Road Initiative

Andrei Panibratov, Alexey Kalinin, Liana Rysakova and Anastasia Lazariva

Economic Growth and Grassland Recovery: The Case of the Inverted EKC From China

Chang Xu, Wanying Yu, Liang Zhao, Baodong Cheng and Dandan Yu

The Places We'll Go: Who Moves to Rural Canada?

Lindsay Finlay and Michael Haan

Turning Water Into … An Urban Spatial Model With Water as an Input

Juan Carlos Lopez

Can the Disclosure of Enrollment Warning Information Really Reduce the Price of School District Housing? Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Hangzhou, China

Yue Xiao, Yunqin He and Haizhen Wen

Relatedness‐Based Industrial Exit Paths and Economic Complexity: Evidence From Chinese Regions

Wei Li, Yiming Fu, Zhen Liu and Ying Wu

Sector Convergence and Its Impact on Innovation Performance: A Case of Solar Industry in China

Tingting Wang, Tangwei Teng, Jing Zhang, Yajun Pan, Shengpeng Wang, Yu Zhang and Han Bao

Territorial Servitization and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in Mexico: A Spatial Panel Data Approach

Jose Antonio Cabrera‐Pereyra

The Effects of Tax Increment Financing on Local Income and Income Surtax Base: Evidence From Iowa School Districts

Yoon‐Jung Choi and Phuong Nguyen‐Hoang

Rural Infrastructure Supply and Population Mobility—An Empirical Analysis Based on Microdata for Rural China

Yunxing Song, Jiguang Zhu and Yan Song

Volume 56, issue 2, 2025

Disentangling Regional Diversification: Identifying Theoretical and Empirical Challenges Through Complex Networks

Henrry Morales, Miguel Atienza, Marcelo Lufin and Markus Grillitsch

The Administrative Mechanism Behind Sustainable Waste Disposal Practices: Evidence From State‐Level Specific Authorities in Nigeria

Dafeng Xu and Adler (Zheqi) Kang

Refugees' Settlement in Greece: Employment in Agriculture as a Criterion for an Alternative Dispersal Plan

Anastasia Blouchoutzi, Georgios Tsaples, Dimitra Manou and Jason Papathanasiou

The Future of European Regional Inequalities: Box‐Cox Transformed ARMA Process Trend Smoothing (BATS) Forecasting

Hasan Engin Duran, Zeynep Elburz and Burcu Değerli Çifçi

Does Foreign Direct Investment Exacerbate or Alleviate Income Inequality in Vietnam? Empirical Evidence in Vietnam Provinces

Huynh Ngoc Chuong, Nguyen Hoang Khanh Linh and Le Thi Kieu Vy

Playing by the Rules: Is Business Formality Driving Economic Growth? Evidence From Colombia's Capital Cities

Adolfo Maza and José Alfonso Sáenz‐Zapata

Exploring the Role of Digital Economy in Reducing Natural Resource Dependence: An Empirical Study From Resource‐Based Cities in China

Yuanqiao Yang, Jianlong Wang and Yong Liu

Shift‐Share Analysis and Multifactor Partitioning: What do Aggregated Data Hide?

Claudia Montanía, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings and D. Michael Ray

Trade Ties and Economic Divides: Trade and Income Inequality in the Regions of Europe

Martina Pardy and Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose

Volume 56, issue 1, 2025

Rethinking Gender Norms: A Review of Richard Reeve’s Book, Of Boys and Men. By Richard Reeves, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2022. $28.99 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback), $16.95 (audiobook). ISBN: 9780815740667

Amanda Weinstein

Distance‐Based Agglomeration Externalities and the Survival of Logistics Firms: Evidence From a Publicly Developed Logistics Park

Nannan He, Ming Jian, Xing Fang, Guoqi Li and Sijing Liu

Deepening Megaregional Interrelatedness Through Migration: The Case of the Northern California Megaregion

Andre Comandon, Seva Rodnyansky and Marlon G. Boarnet

Local Effects of Education and Age Groups on Unemployment in Germany

Fabian Busch and Carsten Ochsen

Does Resource Industry Dependence Undermine Urban Resilience? Evidence From China

Qingxi Wang, Yueji Xin, Zhihua Tian, An Hu and Ye Liu

Input Tariff Cuts and the Spatial Distribution of Skilled Labor: Evidence From China

Wenhan Liu, Wei Xiao and Zhilong Qin

The Impact of Economic Growth Targets on Environmental Pollution: A Study From Chinese Cities

Yicheng Zhou, Zihan Zhang and Boqiang Lin

Whom You Connect With Matters: Innovation Collaboration Network Centrality and Innovative Productivity in Chinese Cities

Cui Zhang, Dandan Zhang, Yu Pan and Yanzhen Wang

Rural Entrepreneurship in the Face of Geodemographic Challenges

Yolanda Fuertes‐Callén, Beatriz Cuéllar‐Fernández and Adriana Serrano‐Magdalena

Revitalizing Cities: The 5R Framework Approach to Urban Retrofitting and Big Data Insights

Xinlin Ma, Yan Song, Fangzheng Lyu, Yang Yang, Yuhua Wang, Xijing Li and Shaopeng Zhong

Forms of Innovation and the Core‐Periphery Divide: (Non‐) Technological Innovation and Geo‐Remoteness in Israel

Emil Israel and Eyal Salinger

Industry 4.0 and the Importance of an Ecosystem‐Based Approach: An Empirical Investigation Based on a Mixed‐Method Analysis

James Boyer

How Do Cognitive Proximity and Knowledge Space Position Affect Firms' Innovation? Evidence From Micro and Small Manufacturing Firms in South Africa

Jefferson R. B. Galetti and Fiona Tregenna

Spiky Metropolitan Landscapes: An Urbanometric Analysis of Growing Agglomerations

Zeynep Elburz, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

Regulation and Restructuring in the Craft Brewing Industry

Gavin Wood and Declan Martin

Regional Specializations in Green Incumbents and Green Start‐ups in the German Transport Sector

Hendrik Hansmeier, Sebastian Losacker, Johannes Bersch and Henning Kroll

Understanding the Catch‐Up Innovation in China: A Perspective of Local Government Competition

Jin Guo, Zhi Wei and Yingzhi Xu

Unemployment Polarisation and Club Convergence in Türkiye

Burhan Karahasan

The Multidimensional Approach to Innovation in the United States and Turkey

Bilge Armatlı Köroğlu and Neil Reid