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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition

Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - 2013

The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...

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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …

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Regional perspectives and distributional effects of European regional policies

Bonfiglio, Andrea; Esposti, Roberto; Pagliacci, Francesco; … - 2014

A major objective of this study is to analyse the evolutionary patterns of regional linkages and disparities across the EU space, especially those related to rural and peripheral/remote regions. In particular, this report assesses the economy-wide effects, in terms of GDP and employment,...

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Looking for PeripheRurality

Camaioni, Beatrice; Esposti, Roberto; Lobianco, Antonello; … - 2013

Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural areas are going through greater challenges and major transformations. After the Eastern enlargements of the EU (in 2004 and 2007), they are getting more and more heterogeneous, in...

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A race to the bottom in labour standards? : an empirical investigation

Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011 - This Draft: November 2011

Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...

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Re-examining the convergence of the world economy : Markov chain model with population weighting

Domínguez, Alvaro; Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2022

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Irregular economic growth in the world economy : fluctuations of ergodic distributions through a Markov Chain Model

Domínguez, Alvaro; Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2022

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Productivity effects of trade in natural resources : comparison with mechanisms of technological specialisation

Zarach, Zuzanna; Parteka, Aleksandra - 2022 - This version: April 2022

estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …

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Convergence of European natural gas prices

Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Polo, Michele - 2018

, their wholesale national gas markets are highly heterogeneous. We study the determinants of cross-country convergence of … pairwise, relative and σ-convergence. We show that there is evidence of pairwise price convergence and that some key … the existence of a convergence process. This result carries over to the notion of σ-convergence and is robust to a number …

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Energy intensity convergence and its long-run minimum

De Cian, Enrica; Emmerling, Johannes; Malpede, Maurizio - 2021

and simulate energy intensity based on a conditional convergence approach, and show how based on the results the long …

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