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European Funds and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Mesquita, José; Pereira dos Santos, João; Tavares, José - 2023
led to a sudden increase in accessibility to EU grants for firms located in 33 Portuguese municipalities. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469373
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The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises
Zhao, Zhong; Zheng, Liang - 2023
China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the … census, we measure the formation of new POEs at the city-industry level, and the agglomeration forces of distance proximity … downstream SOEs are concentrated. However, the agglomeration effects from the incumbent POEs are either insignificant or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377162
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Creativity over Time and Space
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2019
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141280
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Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants
López, Ricardo A; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration … downstream customers also has no effect. Agglomeration effects are stronger for small than for large plants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822285
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Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity
Pflüger, Michael P.; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559701
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Investment Tax Credits and the Response of Firms
Lerche, Adrian - 2022
indirect effects arising from agglomeration economies. Exploiting a change in tax credit rates by firm size in Germany, I find …-intensive industries shifting towards college-educated workers. Using geolocation data, I show that agglomeration benefits lead to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470431
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City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861141
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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Marc; Ruhose, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...
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Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?
Denzler, Stefan; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
A number of studies have long shown that the probability of studying at university is influenced by the distance to the next university. This study shows for the first time that distance to university also influences the choice of subject/faculty and institution. Moreover, these findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021886
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Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor Markets
Peri, Giovanni; Shih, Kevin Y. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper we analyze the impact of foreign-born workers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) on employment and wages in Canadian geographical areas during the period 1991-2006. Canadian policies select immigrants with a strong emphasis on high educational...
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