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Should place-based jobs policies be used to help distressed communities?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2019
Should policymakers seek to increase jobs in particular local labor markets? Yes, but only if these policies are well targeted and designed. Encouraging job growth in distressed places can cause persistent gains in employment-to-population ratios. But our current place-based jobs policies, under...
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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014
, however, in less developed countries RDAs are worked to increase the usage of natural sources and to reduce the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487841
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Assessing regional inequalities in Kazakhstan through well-being
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Bartalucci, Federico; … - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 41 (2024) 1, pp. 301-333
Growing disparities in wealth, well-being, and access to services in Kazakhstan have raised serious concerns among policymakers, especially since the January 2022 protests. This paper evaluates these regional inequalities and presents the findings from Kazakhstan's inaugural well-being survey....
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Regional trajectories of entrepreneurship : the effect of socialism and transition
Fritsch, Michael; Kristalova, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
We investigate how major historical shocks affect regional trajectories of economic activity. To this end, we conduct a comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an anti-entrepreneurial socialist economy in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224838
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Strategies for Reducing Regional Disparities in Romania
Stefanescu, Razvan; Dumitriu, Ramona - 2021
The disparities in the development of a country’s regions could threat the social and political equilibrium of a nation. In general, the reduction of such disparities is a complex task for the governments, involving substantial resources and long periods of time. This paper approaches the...
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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION IN ROMANIA. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
Florentina, Chirila Lavinia - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 234-242
Regional innovation is considered one of the most important drivers of development at present. Innovation is the tool that can help regions develop regardless of their natural resources and potential. The main purpose of the paper is to foster the innovation at regional level in Romania in order...
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A MULTIREGIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ROMANIA'S RURAL AREAS IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Marin, BURCEA - In: Revista Economica 63.4-5 (2012) 4-5, pp. 155-171
One way to overcome the economic crisis is that of taking advantage of the business opportunities and financing within the regional development. The aim of the present paper is to underline the importance of being informed about the business opportunities and analyze the results of a research...
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Asymmetrien in der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie : Modelle, Simulationsmethoden und wirtschaftspolitische Diskussion = Asymmetries in new economic geography : models, simulation me...
Frohwerk, Sascha - Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere … - 2011
The new economic geography explains agglomerations based on a microeconomic general equilibrium model, witch is usually assumed to be symmetric in the sense, that regions are of the same size and transport costs and expenditure shares are the same. As a result, the models can explain why an...
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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment : A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco - 2012
This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096147
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Regional trajectories of entrepreneurship: The effect of socialism and transition
Fritsch, Michael; Kristalova, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
We investigate how major historical shocks affect regional trajectories of economic activity. To this end, we conduct a comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an anti-entrepreneurial socialist economy in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389637