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"Every catholic child in a catholic school" : historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries
West, Martin R. (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2008
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...
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Incubators, accelerators and regional economic development
Madaleno, Margarida; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2018
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916520
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Does light touch cluster policy work? : evaluating the Tech City programme
Nathan, Max - 2019
Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and identify effects using difference-in-differences and synthetic controls on rich microdata. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118723
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Institutional determinants of new firm entry in Russia : a cross regional analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759746
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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms : a regional investigation
Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009
innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the … analysis for the UK as a whole masks stark regional differences in terms of intra- and extra-region collaborative linkages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831766
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Fiscal competition for imperfectly-mobile labor and capital : a comparative dynamic analysis
Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901986
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Interprovincial migration in China : the effects of investment and migrant networks
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2007
Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that migration...
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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012
well-being is a function of the assimilation of immigrants in the region. The effect of immigration is higher in regions …
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Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring : a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation
Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic...
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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten van - 2011
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516901