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. Entrepreneurial entry serves to transform and revitalize industries, thereby enhancing their competiveness. This paper investigates if … entry of new firms influences productivity amongst incumbent firms, and the extent to which altered productivity can be … varies over time, what we refer to as a delayed entry effect. An immediate negative influence on productivity is followed by …
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. Entrepreneurial entry serves to transform and revitalize industries, thereby enhancing their competitiveness. This paper investigates … if entry of new firms influences productivity amongst incumbent firms, and the extent to which altered productivity can … effect varies over time, what we refer to as a delayed entry effect. An immediate negative influence on productivity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616687
The paper focuses on challenges and potentials for policy in the presence of fundamental change processes that influence the long-term evolution of regions. The perspective in the paper implies that policy can be viewed as ‘management of change’. We present a conceptual model for...
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This paper focuses on a much cited but seldom measured micro-foundation for agglomerations: inter-firm labor mobility. Labor mobility has been advanced as a vehicle for knowledge flows and labor market efficiency, and is often maintained to be an important source of agglomeration economies....
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This paper reassesses the relationship between density and productivity by using detailed geo-coded data on wages and employment in Sweden. The contribution is empirical and builds on an analysis of spatial units of exactly the same size in terms of geographic surface. The data divide Sweden...
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We analyze the geographic scale at which density externalities operate and their attenuation with distance. Using square grid data at a fine spatial resolution, we find that a doubling of neighborhood density, measured as the density of 1 km2 squares, yields an increase in the overall wage-level...
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During the last decades regional income divergence seems to have reappeared in both developed and developing countries. In Taiwan – a renowned case of growth with equity – regional per capita income was converging until the early 1990s after which it began to diverge. With the help of...
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It is often claimed that there are locally embedded values and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, exerting a strong influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to capture such phenomena, and refers in a general...
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This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...
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varieties belonging to the same product group, in which there is entry and exit of varieties. Firms innovate in response to the …
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