Dujardin, Claire <br/><br/>
The Border Effect and Spatial Interaction 

 -  2001.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The purpose of this paper is to show up and quantify the effect of the linguistic border on commuting patterns between administrative districts in Belgium. This is achieved through an analysis of the residuals of spatial interaction models (cartography and permeability index). The results show that the linguistic border exerts a reduction effect on commuting and suggest the need to take regional adherence into account in the formulation of spatial interaction models applied to Belgian data.