Showing 1 - 10 of 8,210
The regional distribution of labour productivity in Western Europe is characterised by a Core-Periphery spatial pattern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693133
This paper looks at the factors driving regional growth in Mexico, paying special attention to the potentially growth-enhancing role of innovation and innovation policy. The analysis combines innovation variables with indicators linked to the formation of adequate social conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083786
Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the ’hard problem’ of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083919
Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010758559
Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025593
This paper studies an urban growth model where learning through personal contacts could be more effective in a denser locale, whereas the effectiveness of learning through impersonal means of communications depends principally on the technology of communications rather than on the locale in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970369
This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670957
This paper analyses the spatial patterns of regional economic growth in Europe over the 1995 to 2010 period. It finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430661
We present a joint study of the US structural transformation (the decline of agriculture as the dominating sector) and regional convergence (of Southern to Northern average wages). We find that empirically most of the regional convergence is attributable to the structural transformation: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792545
This paper suggests that the main (and possibly unique) source of beta- and sigma-convergence in GDP per worker (i.e. labor productivity) across Italian regions over the 1980-2004 period is the change in technical and allocative efficiency, i.e. convergence in relative TFP levels. To obtain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046439