The analysis of regional differences in a share of service sector in employment was conducted in the study. The aim of research was to identify the most im-portant intra-sectoral determinants of labour engagement in the service sector at a level of voivodeships. Statistical methods such as...

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

In this work we measure the technological position of the Italian regions with the adoption of the Technology Achievement Index developed by Desai, Fukuda, Johansson and Sagasti (2002). First we note that other available indexes are obtained as a by-product of theoretical- based methods, so that...

Il paper analizza la relazione tra mutamento socio-politico locale e sviluppo economico in seguito alle trasformazioni politiche che hanno investito il Veneto. La nostra attenzione è concentrata sulle trasformazioni di medio e breve periodo nel distretto industriale di Thiene. Per rispondere al...

During the last decades regional income divergence seems to have reappeared in both developed and developing countries. In Taiwan – a renowned case of growth with equity – regional per capita income was converging until the early 1990s after which it began to diverge. With the help of...

ciclo de España y con el de la UEM en el periodo 2000-2010. El objetivo es confirmar la hipótesis que con la integración, el ciclo económico catalán presenta mayor grado de sincronización con el ciclo de la UEM que con el de la economía española. Se trata de evaluar si el border effect...

Nach der Drei-Sektoren-Hypothese gewinnt der Dienstleistungssektor gegenüber dem primären und sekundären Sektor immer mehr an Bedeutung. Die Rolle des sekundären Sektors ist jedoch nicht zu vernachlässigen, weil die Industrieunternehmen mit unternehmensorientierten Dienstleistern immer...

In many countries inward foreign direct investment (FDI) typically concentrates in a few regions. However, there is little empirical evidence on whether spatially concentrated FDI boosts economic growth in other regions within the same country. We use a dataset that covers 96% of Chinese cities...

This paper investigates the impacts of progressive trade openness, technological externalities, and heterogeneity of individuals on the formation of entrepreneurship in a two-country occupation choice model. We show that trade opening gives rise to a non-monotonic process of international...

This paper describes the spread of industry from country to country as a region grows. All industrial sectors are initially agglomerated in one country, tied together by input-output links between firms. Growth expands industry more than other sectors, bidding up wages in the country in which...