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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 … product also find no sigma-convergence of Russian regions. These decompositions point to the geographical concentration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695863
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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation
Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822614
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Personal and Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities: Empirical Evidence from the REM Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the … for 10.000 persons from a recent representative survey of the population in ten German planning regions, the Regional … entrepreneurial experience, who live in more densely populated and faster growing regions with higher rates of new firm formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762449
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721624
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Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
Fu, Feng-Cheng; Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C.; Vijverberg, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significant determinant of variations in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822341
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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties … years, this bimodality is weak in comparison to previous years. Nevertheless, disparities among regions located in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042624
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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
Chakrabarti, Ritashree; Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884184
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273185
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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf’s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233878
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The Size Distribution Across All "Cities": A Unifying Approach
Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649820