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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022
Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...
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Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions : Modeling Regional Heterogeneity
de Graaff, Thomas - 2017
Persistence of high youth unemployment and dismal labour market outcomes are imminent concerns for most European economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is scrutinized at the regional level. We focus on modelling...
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2015
confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029621
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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the first years after German unification the distribution of GDP...
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Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019 : Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian Till; Franke, Richard - 2022
’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079408
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Historical Data : Where to Find Them, How to Use Them
Giuliano, Paola; Matranga, Andrea - 2021
The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the influence of the past on current economic outcomes; to use unique natural experiments to test modern economic theories; and to use modern economic theories to refine our understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315192
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Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo - 2011
also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
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Geography of Skills and Global Inequality
Burzyński, Michał - 2018
experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation …
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