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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree : location of start-ups relative to incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
vary in their pattern of new firm location. In East Germany, only 5 percent of the industries reveal start-up localization … patterns beyond what natural advantages would suggest compared to 40 percent in West Germany. -- Entrepreneurship ; location …New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803496
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New region, new chances : does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?
Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013364914
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The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I … role in the location strategies of multinational corporations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864328
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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study
Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009
application avoids micro-aggregation of the data and explicitly considers sampling weights in the econometric estimation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883864
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Gender unemployment catching-up : empirical evidence from Italian regions
Belloc, Marianna; Tilli, Riccardo - 2010
We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is occurring in most of the regions but at different pace....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008807628
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945827
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Beyond national institutions : labor taxes and regional unemployment in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Lupi, Claudio; Ordine, Patrizia; … - 2001
By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labor taxes and unemployment varies across regions. In spite of similar national labor market institutions, we show that this relationship is significantly stronger in the highly industrialized North than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397928
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Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants : a view from outer space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 16.04.2015
regional income data are available. We subsequently use our estimation results for an out-ofsample prediction of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515477
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Trade, integration, and interregional inequality
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: April 08, 2014
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354797
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Regional inequality and decentralization : an empirical analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data set which covers 56 countries at different stages of economic develop-ment. Cross-section and panel data estimations show that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295332