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The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the...
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Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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investigates the conditional convergence of both human capital indicators and nominal per capita income across Canadian provinces … empiriques par panel, cet article cherche a examiner la convergence conditionnelle et des indicateurs du capital humain, et du …
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COULOMBE S. (2000) New evidence of convergence across Canadian provinces: the role of urbanization, Reg. Studies 34 …, 713-725. This paper uses the conditional convergence model for explaining the relative evolution of per capita income … steady state. The analysis also indicates that for the provinces of Alberta and Quebec, the convergence process was disturbed …
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convergence in state-level growth rates is found. Second, the rate of convergence and capital share are inversely related …. Moreover, numerical computations show that the estimated values for the convergence rate and capital share are consistent with … fortes preuves en faveur de la convergence des taux de croissance sur le plan des etats. Dans un deuxieme temps, le taux de …
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Østbye S. and Westerlund O. (2007) Is migration important for regional convergence? Comparative evidence for Norwegian … and Swedish counties, 1980-2000 Regional Studies 41, 901-915. Regional convergence studies have relied on net migration … justified and, despite Sweden and Norway being similar in many ways, migration has very different effects on convergence in …
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Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...
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We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...
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