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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008
1 funds, but no employment effects. A simple cost-benefit calculation suggests that Objective 1 transfers are not only …
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243162
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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance
Suesse, Marvin - 2019
What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857765
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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?
Abramitzky, Ran - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...
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Types of Contact : A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration
Lowe, Matt - 2020
I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao - 2019
account for a large share of employment. We study the determinants of transitions from subsistence farming into either formal … agricultural employment or agricultural self-employment. We pay particular attention to the role of capital endowments. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892049
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The Urban-Rural Gap in Health Care Infrastructure - Does Government Ideology Matter?
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...
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Impact of Formal Climate Risk Transfer Mechanisms on Risk-Aversion : Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Haile, Kaleab K. - 2019
This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk preferences. Survey and experimental data were collected from smallholder farmers that have access to weather index-based crop insurance (WICI) in Ethiopia. We use an...
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Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023
This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …
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