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type: thesis
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creators_name: Hans, L.
title: The mediating role of settlement patterns on start-up activity in the urban-rural space
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
abstract: This study addresses the mediating role of settlement patterns in the relationship between urbanization and start-up activity. The results show that settlement patterns can explain some of the ambiguous results found in previous research: the relationship between urbanization and start-up rates becomes more similar between countries when controlling for the regional context by including a spatially lagged urbanization variable and variables measuring the distance to urban centers. Therefore, the wider regional context should be taken into account when studying urban-rural relationships. Remarkably, the effect of urbanization on start-up activity is shown to be negative. However, increasing distance from an urban center has a negative effect on start-up rates. This implies that a region does not have to be very highly urbanized itself to be conducive for start-up activity;  however, a region does have to be close to an urban center, preferably a larger one.
date: 2016
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: RS
tutors_name: Koster, S.
keywords_local: settlement patterns
keywords_local: borrowed size
keywords_local: urban-rural space
keywords_local: start-up rates
keywords_local: entrepreneurship
language_iso: en
titleorder: mediating role of settlement patterns on start-up activity in the urban-rural space
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date_of_import: 2020-04-22
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date_issued: 2016-01-01
citation:   Hans, L.  (2016) The mediating role of settlement patterns on start-up activity in the urban-rural space.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/838/1/LianneHans_s2228343_reflection_2.pdf
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/838/2/LianneHans_s2228343_thesis_def_1.pdf