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that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent …
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Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both … the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
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The main argument in this paper is that new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the financial industry will increase specialisation and competition within the European financial centre system and thereby lead to a ‘re-bundling’ of functions of the various financial centres....
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The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical studies. Main elements of such an explanation are the specific problems of a division of innovative labor. Based on an outline of these issues the concept of a regional innovation...
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This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advanceswhich pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under thefollowing (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turnto a task-based...
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attracting plants to specificgeographic areas, but their effectiveness increases with agglomeration externalities,measured by the …
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In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroadsof labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) andabout the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of eachof these two...
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Dieses Diskussionspapier basiert auf einer Studie für das Stadtplanungsamt der Stadt Dresden.
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Im europäischen Einzelhandelssektor vollzieht sich ein Strukturwandel, der in wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Debatte als Ursache für neue, die wirtschaftliche prosperität und soziale Kohärenz der Städte negativ beeinflussende Standortpräferenzen im Einzelhandel verantwortlich gemacht...
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Der Beitrag untersucht den Markt für Elektrizitäts-Minutenreserve (tertiäre Regelenergie) in Deutschland im Jahr 2008. Mit über 200 Millionen Euro machte dieser etwa 15% der Kosten für Systemdienstleistungen aus. Die Beschaffung von Minutenreserven ist als diskriminierende Auktion...
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