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This paper analyses inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce inequality. Recently, economics literature...
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This paper surveys research on social capital with a specific emphasis on Africa studies. We explore deeply the definition and the main dimensions of social capital, following Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam. We also question the formation of social capital and address the issue of measurement. We...
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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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This paper investigates the impact of urban agglomeration on urban economic growth, using static and dynamic panel data … approach, based on data of 52 large cities in India for the period 2000 to 2009. The results shows that agglomeration has a … strong positive effect on urban economic growth and support the “Williamson hypothesis” that agglomeration increases economic …
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/or agglomeration, increases inequality in countries with a relative abundance of skilled workers in a way that is observationally …
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This paper focuses on the influence of two classical drivers of population agglomeration: geography and history …; a process that has not finished in the present days. Next, we show that both drivers of population agglomeration …
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agglomeration is greater. It should be noted, as a summary conclusion, the results are consistent with the theoretical developments … agglomeration. …
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survival has largely ignored the potential effects from agglomeration. Recent studies in urban and regional economics suggests … that agglomeration effects may be very localized. Analyses of industry concentration at the MSA or county-level may fail to … on firm locations and characteristics for Texas, this paper analyses agglomeration effects on firm survival over …
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economy and year 2001. Previous results on the mentioned relationship are confirrmed. Whilst agglomeration e¤ects at NUTs-3 … that agglomeration e¤ects are still present, nonetheless when analysed at a higher degree of geographical disaggregation … economic decentralization along the 1980s may have resulted in this change in agglomeration patterns. Endogeneity problems …
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