geographic concentration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeographicalandconcentration
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geographical
adjective
uk/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌdʒi.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/
relating to geography, or to the geography of a particular area ...
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concentration
noun
uk/ˌkɒn.sənˈtreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌkɑːn.sənˈtreɪ.ʃən/
the ability to think carefully about something you are doing and ...
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(Definition ofgeographicalandconcentrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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How does our hypothesis ongeographicconcentrationfit within the larger literature on economic voting?
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This suggests that, regardless of the electoral rules in play, thegeographicconcentrationof industry matters in democratic politics.
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Moreover,geographicconcentrationwas more important in 2004 than in past elections in minimizing these coordination errors.
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Thus, the effect ofgeographicconcentrationon traded industries is not an artefact of plant size, union membership or occupation.
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More generally, variation in thegeographicconcentrationof industry is likely to shed light on topics ranging from declining union density to shrinking voter turnout.
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These possibilities could yield a spurious inference about the impact ofgeographicconcentration.
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Fourthly, the scale of production, or plant size, may account for the apparent correlation betweengeographicconcentrationand voter turnout in trade-exposed industries.
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Secondly, we take into account the interaction between an industry'sgeographicconcentrationand its exposure to international trade.
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A sufficient number of speakers, together withgeographicconcentration, facilitates the creation of social networks.
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Put differently,geographicconcentrationmight be telling us that more spatially proximate industries are easier for political elites to mobilize.
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Geographicconcentrationhelps account for why some industries are more politically active than others, often across the countries in which they operate.
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Declining industries (coalmining, shipbuilding, textiles) were outsider industries, but they were 'outsiders' in a second spatial sense because of theirgeographicconcentration.
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Our point here is simply thatgeographicconcentrationis not spurious; we are not suggesting that union participation is irrelevant.
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The latter is particularly important, because it speaks directly to plant size, a potential confound which, as we emphasize below, is nonetheless conceptually distinct fromgeographicconcentration.
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Utilizing a systems approach would enable firms to use technology to capitalize on thegeographicconcentration of the livestock industry, which is a problem when only land application is considered.
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There is a very heavygeographicconcentrationof such accidents, particularly in the north-west.
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Geographicconcentrationalso creates more personable relations that yield better business in all manners.
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Most notably, thisgeographicconcentrationof affluence and poverty can be seen in the comparison between suburban and urban populations.
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Geographic concentration's impact is clearly not an artefact of the scale of production.
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With few exceptions, there are no major geographic concentrations of religious minorities.
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