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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...

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Rural employment evolutions

Faieta, Elena; Feng, Zhexin; Serafinelli, Michel - 2025

areas. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment evolutions for rural areas in Western Europe during the … overall employment growth across rural areas in all four countries. A sizable fraction of rural areas lost employment. However …, employment in a significant number of rural areas grew during this period. The 90-10 percentile difference in decadal total …

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Informal labor exchange teams and participation in the labor market : evidence from rural Tanzania

Arciniegas, Christian; Dumas, Christelle; Fahn, Matthias - 2025

hazard in the context of employment relationships. …

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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024

context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …

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Migration and climate change in rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....

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Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance

Süße, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 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...

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Enterprise zones, poverty, and labor market outcomes : resolving conflicting evidence

Neumark, David; Young, Timothy - 2019

This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error accounts...

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On the road (again) : commuting and local employment elasticities in Germany

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2021

thrilling counterpoint to the United States. Our key findings for German counties are that the employment and resident …

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Local employment multiplier : evidence from relocation of public-sector entities in South Korea

Lee, Hwanoong; Ko, Changsu; Kim, Wookun - 2023

sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment … position increases private sector employment by one unit, primarily driven by the service sector. Consistent with existing … literature, we document that the effect of public employment on private employment is highly localized. In addition to changes in …

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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido Enrico (contributor) - 2005

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture is measured by indicators of individual values and beliefs, such as trust and respect for others, and confidence in individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous...

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