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Relatively little attention has been paid to the role that externalities play in determining the pecuniary returns to migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European Union (EU) for the period 1994-2001 in order to...
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convergence, and a carefully estimated econometric model of lagged adjustment confirms this. On average, a 1% decrease in the per … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters … fastest convergence rates given these parameters are the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. The forecast values for …
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even economic landscape. New opportunities seemed to arise for the poor regions in peripheral areas such as the Italian …
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a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social …
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contribute to explaining the waste dynamics. Though North-South waste performances are showing some signals of convergence …, greater efforts towards convergence of waste performances in a decentralised policy scenario are needed. …
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We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density...
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Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good …
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and sufficient condition for convergence to consensus and characterize outcomes where the society ends up polarized. Our … some extent. We provide an analysis of the speed of convergence and the possible outcomes of the process. Furthermore, we …
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an imitation dynamic and provide conditions under which play evolves to an imitation equilibrium; convergence is …
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We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
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