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Economic development and industrial concentration: An inverted U-curve

Junius, Karsten - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

This paper sets up an economic geography model to show the endogenous forces that determine the degree of industry … concentration in the course of economic development. The model includes centrifugal forces, such as home market effects and access …. Economic development increases the size of the industrial sector in terms of employment relative to the size of the …

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Start-up Complexity and the Thickness of Regional Input Markets

Dohse, Dirk Christian; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics...

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Regional Concentration of FDI in Post-reform India: A District-level Analysis

Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We analyze the concentration of FDI in India at the district level, based on project-specific location choices since the reform program in the early 1990s. The decomposition property of the Theil index allows us to trace changes over time in the overall concentration of FDI to changes in...

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Regional Unemployment Structure and New Firm Formation

Audretsch, David B.; Dohse, Dirk Christian; Niebuhr, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional...

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Creativity, Education or What? On the Measurement of Regional Human Capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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