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Migration and Regional Disparities: the Role of Skill Biased Flows

Fratesi, Ugo; Riggi, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2004

The persistence of disparities is one of the most striking features of regional development. We argue that movements of labour force, instead of being an always equilibrating mechanism, can also make persistent or even reinforce such inequalities. The most advanced regions are in fact generally...

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Capital Humano y Crecimiento Económico en México (1970-2000). Human Capital and Economic Growth in Mexico.

Bautista, Alejandro Diaz; Dominguez, Mauro Diaz - EconWPA - 2004

En los últimos años, se han realizado diversos estudios a nivel mundial utilizando el modelo de crecimiento y convergencia económica, a través de países y de regiones. Para el caso de México, hasta la segunda mitad de los noventas comienza el análisis empírico de la convergencia...

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Smart Cities: Explaining the Relationship between City Growth and Human Capital

Shapiro, Jesse M. - EconWPA - 2003

contrasts with the standard argument that human capital generates growth in urban areas solely through local knowledge …

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Estimating a Life Cycle Model with Unemployment and Human Capital Depreciation

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

I estimate a life cycle model of consumption choice with unemployment risk. Employed individuals face the risk of losing their job. Unemployed agents receive job random offers of different quality, which they can accept or reject. Following the loss of a job and during unemployment, an agent’s...

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From Economic Activity to Understanding Spaces

Iribarren, Diego - EconWPA - 2003

This paper constructs the probability space underlying the random variable of any time dependent econometric specification. The construction links concrete economic activity, both perceived and recorded, and econometric formulations. Furthermore, it is argued that the probability events...

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Location Dynamics and Knowledge Agglomeration

Gomes, Orlando - EconWPA - 2004

agglomeration economies, a knowledge variable is assumed. Returning to a two location economy one is able to assess in graphical … terms the relation between distribution of knowledge and location of economic activities. …

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Does the Concept of “Community of Practice” Show New Trajectories for the Evolution of Industrial Districts?

Sedita, Silvia Rita - EconWPA - 2005

of Practice” (CoP) for understanding the dynamics of knowledge creation and sharing in Industrial Districts (IDs). The … repository” of knowledge. The source of the concept of agglomeration of firms in ID is completely different. Anyway, many …, it explains the three main concepts useful for understanding further argumentations: knowledge, ID, CoP. Next, it offers …

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The Forecasting Accuracy of Five Time Series Models: Evidence from the Portuguese Car Market

Ramos, Francisco F. R. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper compares the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of five classes of time series models for market shares of the six most important Portuguese car market competitors over differents horizons. As representative time series models I employ a random-walk with drift (Naive), a univariate...

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Housing Demand in Portugal

Carvalho, Pedro Guedes - EconWPA - 2003

In a former study (Carvalho 1995) we modeled the housing market in Portugal in a classic cross section framework and …

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Innovation and Market Value

Hall, Bronwyn H. - EconWPA - 1999

This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms …. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation … corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above …

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