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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels …. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or …

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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...

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Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions

O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the … Labour Force Survey. We find substantial variations in the financial rewards available to graduates across regions with much …

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The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally …

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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...

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …

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Accounting for Differences in Labour Market Outcomes in Great Britain: Regional Analysis Using the Labour Force Survey

O'Leary, Nigel; Murphy, Philip D.; Latreille, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour market performance. This paper examines these differences...

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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 …

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Inter-Regional Wage Dispersion in Portugal

Vieira, José António Cabral; Couto, João Pedro Almeida; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

-type human capital wage equation, including controls for a large number of regions, and calculate a weighted and adjusted … regions account for a significant fraction of observed wage differentials. …

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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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