We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/eterstat1801.pdf

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2018, VOL 8, No 1.

STUDIES

Birgit Glorius: Migration to Germany: Structures, processes, and discourses

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080101.pdf

Marcell Farkas – Zoltán Dövényi: Migration to Europe and its demographic background

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080103.pdf

Zoltan Egri – Tamas Tanczos: The spatial peculiarities of economic and social convergence in Central and Eastern Europe

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080108.pdf

Lívia Berkecz-Kovács: New trends in the development of Hungarian clusters: The case of the Southern Great Plain region

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080109.pdf

Levente B. Alpek – Róbert Tésits – Gábor Hoványi: Spatial inequalities of disadvantage accumulation and their impact on

employability in Hungary

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080104.pdf

József Benedek –  Ibolya Török – Csongor Máthé: Evidence-based designation of development regions in Romania

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080105.pdf

György Kocziszky – József Benedek – Dóra Szendi: The impact of the 2008 financial crisis on household income and wealth in Visegrad countries

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080102.pdf

Magdolna Komolafe: Dwelling services, with an emphasis on imputed rent in the European Union

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080107.pdf

Onur Sungur –  Yağmur Zararci: Ranking of provinces by entrepreneurship, innovativeness, and human

capital indicators, using the PROMETHEE method –  The case study of Turkey

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080106.pdf

Katalin Lipták – Noémi Hajdú: Jarred baby food purchasing habits among mothers of infants in Hungary,

and the features of baby food labels

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2018/rs080110.pdf

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2019 Southern Regional Science Association Meeting – Arlington, VA
(Washington, DC Metro)

Call for Papers

Join us for the 58th Annual Southern Regional Science Association Meetings at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, April 4 – 6, 2019

For more information on submitting organized sessions, individual abstracts, undergraduate poster abstracts, and Moriarty and Miernyk award applications can be found by clicking on the conference link at www.srsa.org.

2019 Deadlines
Organized Sessions/Individual Abstracts: January 18th
Moriarty Graduate Student Paper Award: February 15th
William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal: February 15th
Undergraduate Poster Abstracts: February 15th

The University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (position 84643), a tenure track appointment with the University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization (UHERO, 0.75 FTE) and the Department of Economics (0.25 FTE), with locus of tenure in UHERO, College of Social Sciences, UHM, permanent, tenure track, full-time, 9-month, to begin August 1, 2019, subject to position clearance and availability of funds.

Duties: Conduct applied research in one or more of the following areas: economic forecasting, state and local public finance, labor economics, health economics, environmental/energy economics, urban/regional economics, or data science. Publish in peer-reviewed academic journals, and serve as principal investigator on extramurally funded projects. Lead UHERO Analytics— a group of staff programmers, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate interns that develop and maintain all of UHERO’s custom database systems; design, build and maintain custom data and web applications; and develop and deploy best-in-class visualizations, dashboards and other innovative methods to produce high-impact research outreach. Teach undergraduate or graduate courses on Data Analysis and Visualization, and other areas as needed. Mentor and advise students. Conduct service and outreach in congruence with UHERO’s mission. Other duties as assigned by the director.

We will conduct interviews at the Annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Atlanta, January 3-5, 2019.

To apply: Visit https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=111461766 for the full job advertisement and application instructions.

We have great pleasure in informing you that Andres Rodriguez-Pose has been granted the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at Utrecht University for his eminent achievements in Economic Geography.

He will get the Honorary Doctorate in a public ceremony at the 383th Dies Natalis of Utrecht University on March 26, 2019.

Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

It is our pleasure to announce the 26th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, from July 4 to July 5, 2019.

Theme of the Conference:

Evidence-based territorial policymaking: formulation, implementation and evaluation of policy

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals are open and your participation is very welcome!

Themes of specific interest are:

RS01 - (Big) Data for regional science

RS02 - Agglomeration, clustering, and networking

RS03 - Climate change mitigation and adaptation

RS04 - Decision Support Systems

RS05 - Education and health

RS06 - Energy and environmental economics

RS07 - Financing of economic growth

RS08 - Geographic Information Systems and location modelling

RS09 - Governance and public policy

RS10 - Housing, rehabilitation and real estate

RS11 - Information and communication technology in regional sciences

RS12 - Infrastructure, transportation and accessibility

RS13 - Innovation, entrepreneurship and regional development

RS14 - Low density regions and development

RS15 - Models and methods in regional science

RS16 - Natural environment, resources and rural development

RS17 - Population, migration and labour markets

RS18 - Qualitative analysis in regional science

RS19 - Quality of life, wellbeing and happiness

RS20 - Regional and local development policies

RS21 - Regional resilience and crisis

RS22 - Services, tourism and culture

RS23 - Social innovation, integration, poverty and exclusion

RS24 - Spatial econometrics

RS25 - Sports and regional development

RS26 - Systems and General Interest Services: education, health

RS27 - Territorial Cohesion and asymmetries

RS28 - Theory in regional science

Deadline for Special Session proposals: February 29, 2019. Proposals should be sent by email to the secretariat of the Congress (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: April 16, 2019. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2019  

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2019  

Looking forward to meeting you in Aveiro!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

26th APDR Congress

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter November 2018 can now be found under

https://regionalscience.org/images/PDF/RSAI%20Newsletter_November_2018.pdf

Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/66427258.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Annual conference of Bangladesh Regional Science Association (BRSA), held in Dhaka during Oct. 25-26, 2018. 

RSAI has the great pleasure to announce that Roberta Capello is the 2018 recipient of the Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to RSAI. Congratulations!

Roberta Capello is Full professor of Regional Economics at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Building Engineering. Congratulations!