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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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The importance of EU cohesion policy for economic growth and convergence
Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2024
about the effectiveness and efficiency of place-based transfers in Europe. While EU regional policy has not completely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577539
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Constraining and enabling factors of a successful regional policy in Europe
Fratesi, Ugo - 2024
Recent papers show that the impact of Cohesion Policy is not uniform in space but larger, smaller or insignificant depending on the regions. These outcomes mostly depend on the characteristics of each territory (conditioning factors). This paper reviews them and investigates, through descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014631792
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Learning from Latin America’s experience : Europe’s failure in the “Lisbon process”
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010
to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world with a "Latin American perspective". A realistic and … most serious development blockades, confronting Europe. Secondly, we analyze European regional performance since the 1990s … in order to know whether growth and development in Europe spread evenly among the different regions of the continent. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941467
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The distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU
Lang, Valentin - 2024
This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577516
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Regional economic growth and human capital : the role of overeducation
Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach Caralt, Jordi; Artís Ortuño, … - 2009
The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the recent economic performance of European regions is associated with an increase in overeducation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901216
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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter
Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2015
data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336970
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FDI impact on firm performance in enlarged Europe : evidence from a meta-regression analysis
Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria - 2014
focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339576
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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe
Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014
We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463406
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Calamities, common interests, shared identity: what shapes altruism and reciprocity?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519259