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More than one third of the European Union's total budget is spent on socalled Cohesion Policy via the structural funds. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of the various European regions. Investigating the impact...
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This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in 1995 to 2000 and, moreover, relaxes the assumption of a single steady-state growth path which appears to be out of tune with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial...
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This paper analyses the growth e®ects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...
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This paper conducts a spatial econometric analysis of the determinants of regional specialisation patterns. Spatial autocorrelation is present, but is mostly due to spatial error autocorrelation. Spatial interaction due to economic interdependencies is only evident for some few labour-intensive...
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The aim of this paper is to introduce a new model selection mechanism for cross sectional spatial models. This method is more flexible than the approach proposed by Florax et al. (2003) since it controls for spatial dependence as well as for spatial heterogeneity. In particular, Bayesian and...
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industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity. Intangible capital appears to be significantly more productive in ICT …-intensive sectors than in those that use little ICT. This finding remains robust across various alternative industry ICT intensity … measures and aligns with the prior firm-level studies that place emphasis on the complementary role of intangible assets in ICT …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We …. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find that: (1) ICT capital is associated with a significant reduction in … energy demand. (2) This relationship differs with regard to different types of energy. ICT use is not significantly …
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Driven by ICT, universities are changing in depth the nature and forms of learning processes, which are intended to … prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of ICT in … 2010 dataset of French university students. We show that students' involvement in the use of ICT increases their e …
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authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
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During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...
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