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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884112
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762298
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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 …Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and …. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822346
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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
degrees of firms' technological capabilities. These findings may be useful to help policy making to meet the priorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822614
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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 … agglomeration effects being important. These results have implications for the recent changes to student funding in England …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822928
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822930
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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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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566534
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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 a selection of large countries measured by the size of their population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566719