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Regional convergence in Russia : estimating a neoclassical growth model

Lehmann, Hartmut; Oščepkov, Aleksej Ju.; Silvagni, … - 2020

In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from … model to analyze the regional convergence process in the Russian case. We also take into account possible spatial effects … and do a series of other robustness checks. Our main estimates establish a convergence rate of around 2% per year. While …

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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014

We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...

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Human capital and the economic convergence mechanism : evidence from China

Zhang, Xiaboei; Li, Haizheng; Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, … - 2019

We examine the mechanism by which human capital affects economic growth and convergence, using provincial level panel … estimate parametrically, nonparametrically, and with a threshold model. Our results show that economic convergence is …

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Using spatial econometric techniques to analyze the joint employment decisions of spouses

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2014

Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...

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Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...

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Vote influence in group decision-making : the changing role of justices' peers on the Supreme Court

Mindock, Maxwell R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2019

We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes. Coincident with changes in the party imbalance of the Court over time, sharp discontinuities in these dependencies are evident. Overall, the patterns suggest a tradeoff between...

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Inter-city spillover and intra-city agglomeration effects among local labour markets in China

Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti; Liang, Xuan - 2019

We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and allowing for endogenous and exogenous spatial dependence,...

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Did the post-1986 decline in the homeownership rate benefit the New Zealand labour market? : a spatial-econometric exploration

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques - 2019

The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis a decade later. Research...

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It's the way people move! : labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia

Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020

This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states … convergence, but rather divergence across Russian regions. …

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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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