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Regional value added in Italy over the long run (1891-2001): linking indirect estimates with official figures, and implications

Felice, Emanuele - Unitat d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de … - 2011

international debate on regional convergence, where it stands out for the long run persistence of its disparities. …

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A Meta-Analysis of Beta-Convergence: The Legendary Two-Percent

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …

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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth: Increasing Returns in Cognitive Knowledge Use

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2011). Volume 102(4), pages 385-405. Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D,...

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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...

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Passive Modernization? The New Human Development Index and Its Components in Italy’s Regions (1871-2007)

Felice, Emanuele; Vasta, Michelangelo - Unitat d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de … - 2012

, convergence in the HDI occurred from the late XIX century to the 1970s, but came to a sudden halt in the last decades of the XX …

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Growth and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...

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Firm Formation and Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition

Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

In the presence of agglomeration economies one might expect a relocation and concentration of industries. Then firm start-up activities may be assumed to reveal those effects. We introduce an empirical testable model inspired by the New Economic Geography and human capital externalities...

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Production Externalities in the Wood Furniture Industry in Central Java

Andadari, Roos K.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

See also the article 'The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Meta-analytic evidence' in Papers in … that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable … self-reinforcing growth rather than neoclassical convergence. However, studies that use panel models or IV estimation yield …

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