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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201123
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Does Entrepreneurship reduce Unemployment?
Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
particular, our results suggest that innovation efforts have an indirect effect on economic performance via entrepreneurship …n this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional … knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144397
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Search and the City
Teulings, C.N.; Gautier, P.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
wage differentials between large metropoles and small cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042219
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour: Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald’s thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144526
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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964454
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Does Land Use Planning shape Regional Economies?
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
simultaneous equations analysis, we find that employment adjusts to the regional supply of labour. Net internal migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136856
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A Dynamic Model of Commutes
Rouwendal, Jan; Vlist, Arno van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
This paper studies the interaction between job mobility and housing mobility by considering the duration of commutes. Conventional models assume that the employrnent location has priority over the residentiallocation and that the latter is adapted to the former. This implies that the duration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136863
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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification
Vries, Jacob J. de; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the distance-decay function. It appears that neither an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137080
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The Duration of Unemployment in Russia
Grogan, Louise; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine four types of marginalised labour force participants, according to ILO guidelines and survey responses, and we estimate duration models for each type. It turns out that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137393
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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
model is improved by decomposing population growth into net interregional migration and exogenous natural popu1ation … migration is dominated by housing market developments and in the short run on1y slightly affected by increases in regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136968