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The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper evaluates the impact of relocations of public employment across cities on private sector activity. To identify the effect of changes in public employment on the private sector, we exploit the relocation of the German Federal Government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second...

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Spatial inequalities in Russia: dynamic and sectoral analysis

Kolomak, Evgeniya - European Regional Science Association - 2013

inequalities and test the presence of agglomeration economies over the observed period. We use the Theil index to analyze the … observed period. To evaluate the magnitude of agglomeration economy we regress the logarithm of labor productivity on the … further concentration of the economic activity and interregional divergence in Russia. Forces behind agglomeration economy and …

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The Role of Geography and Institutions in determining FDI flows into Italian Provinces

Battista, Attilio Di - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper describes the determinants of FDI location among Italian provinces, focusing on the role of market potential (in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour...

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continuity and change in workplaces of beyoglu in the period 1950-2011

girişken, gülin - European Regional Science Association - 2014

20th century witnessed Istanbul's unexpected and tumultuous economic, politic, social and spatial transformation. In the first quarter of the 20th century, Istanbul lost half of its population and went through a stagnated duration; however the city regained its importance and former population...

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Does History Fully Determine the Spatial Distribution of Human Capital ?

Busson, Henri - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In the United States, regions with more human capital tend to attract skilled workers (e.g., see Glaeser and Berry, 2005), and as a result, convergence between regions does not occur (e.g., see Barro and Sala-i-Martin, 1992). Presently, many of the most productive European workers try to migrate...

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Spatial evolution of economic activity in Russia: New economic geography perspective

Kolomak, Evgeniya - European Regional Science Association - 2014

interregional divergence in Russia. The forces behind the agglomeration economy and regional disparities are market … mechanisms of agglomeration and provides suggestions for the pro-dispersion forces to countervail centripetal tendencies …

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Creative Class vs. Individual Creativity ? A Multi-level Approach to the Geography of Creativity

Alfken, Christoph - European Regional Science Association - 2014

For more than ten years the topics creative class, creative industries and creative regions are on the agenda in economic geography literature. Contributions mainly focus on the distribution, mobility and economic impact of creative individuals or companies from a regional perspective. It is...

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The urban wage growth premium: evidence from British cities.

D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry - European Regional Science Association - 2013

, which of the major agglomeration economies might generate this premium. Third, whether workers receive this wage premium …

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An Exploratory Space Data Analysis of Manufacturing Co-Localization Patterns in Italy.

Ercole, Roberto - European Regional Science Association - 2013

combination of discrete and continuous-space models will be used in order to explore the agglomeration, concentration and … account in order to have a rilaible measurment of agglomeration. Hence, the Moran?s I, Moran?s scatterplot and LISA statistics …

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Analyzing the determinants of agglomeration for the manufacturing industry in Turkey

Gezici, Ferhan; Yazgı, Burçin; Metin, Sinem - European Regional Science Association - 2013

industrial location decisions and agglomeration economies have been crucial topics for researchers since Alfred Marshall (1920 … in the location of the industrial activities in a few decades to explore the determinants of agglomeration economies in …, the study would point out that the determinants of agglomeration may differ based on the location parameter by comparing …

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