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Broadband diffusion and firm performance in rural areas : quasi-experimental evidence
Canzian, Giulia; Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2015
This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), generating a source of exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348292
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth : evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919883
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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209
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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339613
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Is there a gap in the gap? : regional differences in the gender pay gap
Hirsch, Boris; König, Marion; Möller, Joachim - 2009
' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a flexible semi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863176
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Does democracy foster trust?
Rainer, Helmut (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2006
trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328070
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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846988
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Local economic structure and industry development in Germany, 1993 - 2001
Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between … Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and find very similar results for Germany. Afterwards we formulate an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452347
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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany … Germany, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019, i.e., they moved from … the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332122
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Green mobility and well-being
Echeverría, Lucía; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2021
Recent years have witnessed efforts worldwide to promote green mobility, aimed at boosting sustainable economic growth. However, how green mobility relates to travelers' well-being remains an open question. We explore whether "green" modes of transportation (public transit and walking/cycling)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549457