THE ROLE OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN HUNGARY?S URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 
Autor (i): Zoltan Egri PhD*, Tamas Tanczos PhD, Ferenc Arany
 
JEL: I14, I15, R10
 
Abstract:
Our study is about the economic inequalities of the Hungarian urban network,  according to the health condition. Barro (1996, 2013) and Tompa highlight that the  theories (new growth theories, Romer 1986, Lucas 1988) explaining the economic growth, the aspects of the knowledge and technology got basicly in the foreground in connection with the human capital. This trend can be felt in the territorial researches interpreting the development and competitiveness of Hungary, for example due to the territorial capital-, or competitiveness researches (Nemes Nagy-Németh 2003, Lukovics-Kovács 2008, Lengyel-Szakálné Kanó 2012, Jóna 2013). Even if the health appears in some kinds of shape, that refers rather to the availability of the infrastucture, in addition, the correct presence of the health conditions are really rare in the different modells.  That is why, the aim of our research is the health condition (with special regard to the premature mortality) as the discovery and review of human resource  relating to the urban economy development. In this study the explanatory spatial data analysis (ESDA) is used for it. This method gives us the opportunity to show the spatial regularities and relations (uni- and bivariate territorial autocorrelation, regression models reflecting spatial characteristic). With the help of the spatial econometric methods we had been searching for the answer what influence have the the health condition and other control variables on the evolution of the city economy performance (income/capita, unemployment rate).  
 
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