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Local Multipliers, Unemployment and Migration: An Empirical Analysis of the United States

Dijk, Jasper Van - European Regional Science Association - 2014

I show that the nontradable sector of a regional economy benefits from attracting jobs in the tradable sector. I find that on average one new job in a tradable industry in a city will attract 1.02 extra jobs in the nontradable sector of that same city. This local multiplier effect increases with...

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Determinants of Local Multipliers

Dijk, Jasper Van - European Regional Science Association - 2014

A key aspect of understanding how regions grow is the interplay between jobs in the tradable and jobs in the non-tradable sector. Jobs in the tradable sector supply the world market and can therefore move from region to region, but every region has a local demand for non-tradable goods and the...

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EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited

Schmidt, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

convergence or economic cohesion, respectively. Following this strand of theory no regional policy is needed to achieve … convergence among the regions or nations of a common market. Thus, comparing the two internal markets, the question comes up if … inhibiting internal migration, which is one of the key measures in achieving convergence among the nations in the Single European …

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