José Victor C Giarola, Frank Cörvers, Hans Schmeets
Using unique administrative data on historical dialects, we estimate the effect of cultural dissimilarity on cross-border commuting flows from the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium (i.e. Flanders and Brussels) to the Netherlands. The results show that economic drivers, specifically the cost of commuting measured by the geographical distance, remain the most important factor defining the distribution of workers across the national borders of Belgium and the Netherlands. Furthermore, we showed that an increase in cultural difference between municipalities by one standard deviation leads to a robust decrease in cross-border commuting flows from Belgium to the Netherlands ranging from 7% to 22%.
{"title":"Culture and cross-border commuting","authors":"José Victor C Giarola, Frank Cörvers, Hans Schmeets","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf054","url":null,"abstract":"Using unique administrative data on historical dialects, we estimate the effect of cultural dissimilarity on cross-border commuting flows from the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium (i.e. Flanders and Brussels) to the Netherlands. The results show that economic drivers, specifically the cost of commuting measured by the geographical distance, remain the most important factor defining the distribution of workers across the national borders of Belgium and the Netherlands. Furthermore, we showed that an increase in cultural difference between municipalities by one standard deviation leads to a robust decrease in cross-border commuting flows from Belgium to the Netherlands ranging from 7% to 22%.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Remote work scholarship treats work-from-home as individual adaptation, ignoring how households must reorganize to enable it. This individualistic bias proves particularly problematic for understanding Global South experiences where infrastructure deficits amplify household burdens. Examining 51 Indian IT professionals’ transition to remote work, we reveal how households reorganized across spatial, temporal, technical, surveillance, and emotional dimensions. We theorize “household infrastructure reorganization” as collective household labor enabling remote work, “domestication of organizational infrastructure” as cost transfer from organizations to households, and “infrastructural volatility” as chronic uncertainty shaping remote work. These findings challenge remote work scholarship and reveal geographic inequalities in remote work.
{"title":"Remote work and reorganization of household infrastructure in the Global South: insights from the Indian information technology industry","authors":"Vivek Soundararajan, Pankhuri Agarwal, Divya Tyagi","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf052","url":null,"abstract":"Remote work scholarship treats work-from-home as individual adaptation, ignoring how households must reorganize to enable it. This individualistic bias proves particularly problematic for understanding Global South experiences where infrastructure deficits amplify household burdens. Examining 51 Indian IT professionals’ transition to remote work, we reveal how households reorganized across spatial, temporal, technical, surveillance, and emotional dimensions. We theorize “household infrastructure reorganization” as collective household labor enabling remote work, “domestication of organizational infrastructure” as cost transfer from organizations to households, and “infrastructural volatility” as chronic uncertainty shaping remote work. These findings challenge remote work scholarship and reveal geographic inequalities in remote work.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"193 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145559316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This commentary reflects on the past, present, and future of financial geography in its relationship with economic geography. It discusses how financial geography of the present decade continues and changes research trends and patterns of the past two decades and outlines how financial geography could address global financial questions of the future, including the very nature of money. I argue that financial geography is now mature to address big questions on where money comes from and where it is going and that Journal of Economic Geography has a special role to play in this shared project.
{"title":"Finance and economic geography: where does money come from and where is it going?","authors":"Dariusz Wójcik","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf051","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary reflects on the past, present, and future of financial geography in its relationship with economic geography. It discusses how financial geography of the present decade continues and changes research trends and patterns of the past two decades and outlines how financial geography could address global financial questions of the future, including the very nature of money. I argue that financial geography is now mature to address big questions on where money comes from and where it is going and that Journal of Economic Geography has a special role to play in this shared project.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145525201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The link between digital technologies and productivity has long intrigued researchers. Key to unpacking this relationship is detailed data connecting internet usage, economic outputs, and places. Using a multilevel modelling framework, we combine firm-level microdata with unique internet speed microdata that reflect end-user experiences, distinguishing upload and download speeds. This approach approximates business internet usage and reveals that higher speeds boost productivity, while unstable speeds have the opposite effect. These findings highlight the economic importance of high-speed internet infrastructure and present policymakers with a trade-off between efficiency and equity in planning decisions.
{"title":"Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds","authors":"Emmanouil Tranos, Tasos Kitsos, Levi John Wolf","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf045","url":null,"abstract":"The link between digital technologies and productivity has long intrigued researchers. Key to unpacking this relationship is detailed data connecting internet usage, economic outputs, and places. Using a multilevel modelling framework, we combine firm-level microdata with unique internet speed microdata that reflect end-user experiences, distinguishing upload and download speeds. This approach approximates business internet usage and reveals that higher speeds boost productivity, while unstable speeds have the opposite effect. These findings highlight the economic importance of high-speed internet infrastructure and present policymakers with a trade-off between efficiency and equity in planning decisions.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article considers the practice of handing over potentially high-cost medical problems to low-cost but presumably competent providers in far-away countries.
本文考虑将潜在的高成本医疗问题移交给遥远国家的低成本但可能有能力的提供者的做法。
{"title":"Geography of medical care","authors":"Nebahat Tokatli","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf037","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the practice of handing over potentially high-cost medical problems to low-cost but presumably competent providers in far-away countries.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145247141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martín Arias-Loyola, Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Felipe Encinas
This article examines how bargaining power is exercised by an extractivist state across political arrangements and spatial scales within global extractive production networks. Focusing on Chile’s copper and lithium sectors, it introduces the concept of fragmented extractivist governance: a mode through which the state selectively deploys neoliberal, rentier, and developmentalist logics to shape who benefits from, and who bears the costs of, resource-based exploitation. The article contributes empirically by analysing Chile’s hybrid governance dynamics, and conceptually by theorizing multiscalar state strategies that (re)produce territorial inequalities, challenging conventional views of state cohesion in extractive economies.
{"title":"Bargaining the dark side? Fragmented extractivist governance under hybrid political arrangements in the Chilean copper and lithium industries","authors":"Martín Arias-Loyola, Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Felipe Encinas","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf036","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how bargaining power is exercised by an extractivist state across political arrangements and spatial scales within global extractive production networks. Focusing on Chile’s copper and lithium sectors, it introduces the concept of fragmented extractivist governance: a mode through which the state selectively deploys neoliberal, rentier, and developmentalist logics to shape who benefits from, and who bears the costs of, resource-based exploitation. The article contributes empirically by analysing Chile’s hybrid governance dynamics, and conceptually by theorizing multiscalar state strategies that (re)produce territorial inequalities, challenging conventional views of state cohesion in extractive economies.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the spatial manifestation of cultural capital, an increasingly central means by which social inequalities are demarcated. To conduct our analysis, we measure both linear and transportation network distances between neighborhoods and representative amenities of cultural capital within the twelve most populous American metropolitan areas. By classifying neighborhoods according to their residents’ income and educational attainment levels, we identify consistent and geographically based gaps in access to cultural capital that favor the socially advantaged, particularly in terms of educational attainment. These results highlight how local geographies mediate access to social mobility. We recommend policy interventions accordingly.
{"title":"The geography of cultural capital: measuring neighborhood-level gaps in access as a key driver of social mobility","authors":"Andrew Eisenlohr, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf040","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the spatial manifestation of cultural capital, an increasingly central means by which social inequalities are demarcated. To conduct our analysis, we measure both linear and transportation network distances between neighborhoods and representative amenities of cultural capital within the twelve most populous American metropolitan areas. By classifying neighborhoods according to their residents’ income and educational attainment levels, we identify consistent and geographically based gaps in access to cultural capital that favor the socially advantaged, particularly in terms of educational attainment. These results highlight how local geographies mediate access to social mobility. We recommend policy interventions accordingly.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the reorganisation of capital–labour relations during the transition from coal to renewable energy (RE) by conceptually and empirically linking socio-ecological fixes and labour regimes. Based on mixed-methods research in the main Greek coal region, we unveil the structural conditions and the key agents at play at different scales. The findings reveal a profit-driven and path-dependent logic that drives land grabbing for RE and the exploitation of precarious labour to sustain capital accumulation. The counter-agency of local and regional authorities, unions, and grassroots movements reflects the contested geographical imaginaries that either maintain or challenge the dominant power structures.
{"title":"Linking labour regimes and socio-ecological fixes: the low-carbon transition of electricity production in Greece","authors":"Vasiliki Krommyda, Stelios Gialis, Anastasia Stratigea","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf039","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the reorganisation of capital–labour relations during the transition from coal to renewable energy (RE) by conceptually and empirically linking socio-ecological fixes and labour regimes. Based on mixed-methods research in the main Greek coal region, we unveil the structural conditions and the key agents at play at different scales. The findings reveal a profit-driven and path-dependent logic that drives land grabbing for RE and the exploitation of precarious labour to sustain capital accumulation. The counter-agency of local and regional authorities, unions, and grassroots movements reflects the contested geographical imaginaries that either maintain or challenge the dominant power structures.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145154121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bence Boje-Kovacs, Ismir Mulalic, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
In this article, we investigate the impact of municipal mergers on residential mobility in a quasi-natural experiment setting by examining how the local economic environment and neighbourhood composition respond to the loss of local public administration. Using comprehensive neighbourhood-level data from Denmark spanning 1996 to 2015, we find that the loss of the town hall triggers emigration, leading to a reduction in locally supplied public goods. This affects the local housing market and job availability, leading to lower housing prices, higher wages, and longer commutes. Ultimately, the loss of the town hall has major negative consequences for the inhabitants.
{"title":"The domino effect: exploring residential mobility in the aftermath of municipal mergers","authors":"Bence Boje-Kovacs, Ismir Mulalic, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf038","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we investigate the impact of municipal mergers on residential mobility in a quasi-natural experiment setting by examining how the local economic environment and neighbourhood composition respond to the loss of local public administration. Using comprehensive neighbourhood-level data from Denmark spanning 1996 to 2015, we find that the loss of the town hall triggers emigration, leading to a reduction in locally supplied public goods. This affects the local housing market and job availability, leading to lower housing prices, higher wages, and longer commutes. Ultimately, the loss of the town hall has major negative consequences for the inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145127627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We propose an urban model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in developing country cities. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways. Tenure risk and asymmetric information likely cause insufficient urban development. Empirical tests of the model for Bamako, Mali, confirm the existence of tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in the primary land market, but not in the secondary market, consistently with information revelation after initial sales by customary holders.
{"title":"Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities","authors":"Pierre M Picard, Harris Selod","doi":"10.1093/jeg/lbaf023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf023","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an urban model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in developing country cities. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways. Tenure risk and asymmetric information likely cause insufficient urban development. Empirical tests of the model for Bamako, Mali, confirm the existence of tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in the primary land market, but not in the secondary market, consistently with information revelation after initial sales by customary holders.","PeriodicalId":48251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Geography","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145089677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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