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Creativity in fashion design in Slovakia: the case study of Bratislava region

Pástor, Rudolf; Parízková, Jana - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper is focused on creativity in the fashion design in Slovakia. The fashion design in Bratislava region was … activities between Slovak fashion designers. In the paper will be presented results from research carried out between Slovak … fashion designers located in Bratislava region. The empirical work that provides the basis for this case study used a case …

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Cluster evolution in mature Industrial cluster. The case of Prato Marshallian ID after the entrance of Chinese firm populations (1945-2011)

Lazzeretti, Luciana; Capone, Francesco - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The aim of the present research is to participate to the recently resurged debate on cluster life cycle theory among scholars of New Evolutionary Geography and Industrial Economics, starting from the seminal contributions of Menzel and Fornhal (2010). Authors pointed out how the very cluster...

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The role of Culture on Self-Employment

MARCEN, MIRIAM - European Regional Science Association - 2013

There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical...

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Cultural Distance and Gravity Effects among Migrants

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...

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Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Akkemik, K. Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper studies the effects of differences in worldviews on parents? attitudes towards their children. We use unique German survey data containing questions on worldviews, religion, parental behavior, and socioeconomic variables. Our empirical evidence suggests that people with stronger...

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Institutions, Civil Society, Trust and Quality of Life: A Social Capital- And Social Identity-Based Approach. Evidence from the Russian Federation

Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Skilters, Jurgis - European Regional Science Association - 2014

Many scholars, since the early 2000s, advocate for the integration of institutionalist and communitarian views of social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist states - characterized by transitional processes, with a...

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