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New regional identities in a global world
Bailly, Antoine - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108720
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Economic geography of contagion : a study on Covid-19 outbreak in India
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2022
We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality in which the periphery remains dependent on the core for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803552
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Urbanization and the change in political elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448167
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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1,940 Ethiopian firms over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109320
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129950
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Heterogeneous shocks in the Covid-19 pandemic : panel evidence from Italian firms
Brancati, Emanuele; Brancati, Raffaele - 2020
This paper contributes to the policy discussion on Covid-19 by presenting real-time evidence on the magnitude of the shock for Italian firms. We take advantage of unique panel data on 7,800 companies between January 2020 {right before the pandemic{ and March of the same year {in the midst of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268419
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"A global city in a global pandemic : assessing the ongoing impact of COVID induced trends on London's economic sectors"
Anderson, Dylan; Hesketh, Rachel; Kleinman, Mark; … - 2020
Over the last 50 years, London has successfully adapted to technological change and globalization, making it the major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249680
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Inter-country distancing, globalization and the Coronavirus pandemic
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Karabulut, Gokhan; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2020 - This draft: April 24, 2020
Originating in China, the Coronavirus has reached the world at different speeds and levels of strength. This paper … human factor behind globalization is essential. Globalization, a major force behind global wellbeing and equality, is highly … associated with this factor. The analysis investigates the impact globalization has on the speed of initial transmission to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208583
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Public employment decline in developing countries in the 21st century : the role of globalization
Gözgör, Giray; Bilgin, Mehmet Huseyin; Zimmermann, … - 2019
The impact of globalization on developing countries has been debated: While the "compensation hypothesis" suggests that … globalization increases the need for public employees, the "efficiency hypothesis" states that the size of government should be … developing countries and new innovative bureaucracy and globalization indicators to find robust evidence for the "efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161643
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The world at the crossroad : demographic polarization and mass migration : global threat or global opportunity
Bruni, Michele - 2019
The unstoppable progress of the demographic transition is determining a progressive decline of the rates of growth of the total population and working age population of the planet, two phenomena that could have a very positive global socioeconomic and environmental impact. Unfortunately, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162985