The Annals of Regional Science. Volume 68, Issue 1 is now available online.

In this issue

Editorial

Editorial: developments at the Annals of regional science 2020–2021

Martin Andersson, Brian H. S. Kim, Janet E. Kohlhase

Editorial

Labor force diversity and new firm formation

Mikaela Backman, Janet E. Kohlhase

Original Paper

The roles of KIBS and R&D in the industrial diversification of regions

Jeroen Content, Nicola Cortinovis, Koen Frenken, Jacob Jordaan

Economic shocks and their effect on the schooling and labor participation of youth: evidence from the metal mining price boom in Chilean counties

Manuel Pérez Trujillo, Gabriel O. Rodríguez Puello

How does the length of residence in a neighborhood vary the effects of neighborhood land use on commuting trip time and mode choice?

Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim

The geography of COVID-19 in Sweden

Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander

Frictional unemployment, bargaining, and agglomeration

Xinmeng Li, Dao-Zhi Zeng

Do population density, socio-economic ranking and Gini Index of cities influence infection rates from coronavirus? Israel as a case study

Yuval Arbel, Chaim Fialkoff, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner

Convergence in retail gasoline prices: insights from Canadian cities

Mark J. Holmes, Jesús Otero, Theodore Panagiotidis

Study on the impact of the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway on regional economic equity based on economic performance

Heng Yang, Qiong Tong, Pan Zhao