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Behrens, Kristian - 2013

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within … toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends …

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Endogenous Local Labour Markets, Regional Aggregation and Agglomeration Economies

Meekes, Jordy - 2019

This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch administrative data, we define local labour markets (LLMs) based on the worker's commuting outcomes, gender and educational attainment, and show that high-educated workers and male workers...

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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part …

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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer.Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …

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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence : Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren - 2009

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer, Michal - 2016

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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