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The determinants of local employment dynamics in Western Germany
Fuchs, Michaela - 2009
Betrieben, die Unterschiede zwischen Westdeutschland und Frankreich sind nur gering. -- Regional labor markets ; specialization …Im Zentrum dieses Artikels steht die Frage, wie sich die Art der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur auf die … für Frankreich von Combes/Magnac/Robin (2004) wird das Wachstum der Gesamtbeschäftigung unterteilt in internes Wachstum …
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Regional growth regimes revisited : the case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004
Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...
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Why Does the Effect of New Business Formation Differ Across Regions?
Fritsch, Michael - 2007
We investigate regional differences of the effect of new business formation on employment growth in West Germany. We find an inverse 'u'-shaped relationship between the level of start-up activity and employment change. The main variables that shape the employment effects of new businesses in a...
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Marshall or Jacobs? : answers to an unsuitable question from an interaction model
Lehmann, Robert; Kluge, Jan - 2012
This paper investigates whether localization economies as brought forward by Marshall (1890) or urbanization economies as mentioned by Jacobs (1970) are more decisive for regional gross value added per capita. Our novel approach is to explicitly allow for interdependencies between these two...
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Entrepreneurship, Corruption, and the Size of U.S. Underground Economies
Wiseman, Travis - 2015
Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower (higher) levels of informal economic activity....
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Where do we go from here? : market access and regional development in Italy (1871 - 1911)
Missiaia, Anna - 2015
Italy has been characterized, throughout its history as a unified country, by large regional differentials in the levels of income, industrialization and socio-economic development. This paper aims at testing the New Economic Geography hypothesis on the role of market access in explaining these...
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The effect of migration on income convergence : meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Poot, Jacques; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel C. - 2013 - Last Revision: April 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels. -- Economic Growth ;...
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Population change and new firm formation in urban and rural regions
Delfmann, Heike - 2012
Several regions across the EU, including the Netherlands, face the challenges of population decline, which entails changing demographics and related social and economic implications. Social ties are disrupted by continuous out-migration, causing a decrease in support systems which may adversely...
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Evolution of regional disparities in Romania : a shift-share analysis
Chilian, Mihaela-Nona - 2011
The paper aims to assess the evolution of the development disparities (output, employment, overall and by sectors) in the regions and counties of Romania. Using classic and spatial shift-share analysis tools, we investigate the extent to which the existing interregional and, especially,...
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