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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between human capital endowments and the structure of regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity, requiring human capital inputs, the core hypothesis...
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R&D in Sweden using an accessibility approach. After an extensive literature survey, we develop a simple theoretical …-municipal accessibility to students in higher education, while the accessibility to university R&D turned out to be insignificant …
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This paper analyzes the overall growth pattern of Swedish municipalities in the 1990s. Using an accessibility …-based hierarchy of municipalities, we relate growth to intra municipal, intra regional and inter regional accessibility. We explore …
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benefit from short-distance supply of producer services. The service suppliers benefit from accessibility to customers among … the manufacturing firms. Accessibility based on time distances is incorporated into the analysis to allow for inter … location manufacturing employment can be explained by its accessibility to producer services. However, accessibility to …
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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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This paper analyzes the role of knowledge in regional economic growth by focusing on knowledge accessibility. The … research question is the following: can the variation in knowledge accessibility between regions in a given period explain the … variation in growth performance of regions in subsequent periods? A main assumption in the paper is that knowledge accessibility …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional economic growth in Sweden. The … research question we ask in this paper is the following: can the variation between regions in knowledge accessibility in a … can be modelled using an accessibility approach. An advantage of modelling the interaction potentials at different spatial …
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be measured using accessibility measures. Furthermore, accessibility measures can be used to model interaction …
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