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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865017
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The Origins of Entrants and the Geographyof the German Laser Industry
Bünstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008
agglomeration economies. Regional public research activities mayexert another attracting force on entrants into science … paper begins to disentangle the effects of agglomeration, public research, andthe supply of capable entrants for the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867785
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Human Capital Externalities and the Urban WagePremium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Südekum, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868447
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI:Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360562
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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firmworkermatching process. Our method makes use of recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522215
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Economic Growth of Agglomerations and Geographic Concentrationof Industries – Evidence for Germany
Geppert, Kurt; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006
The vast majority of regions in West Germany, and the EU, have become more similar in terms of per-capita income and productivity between 1980 and 2000. But a number of rich areas - generally large agglomerations - have succeeded in departing from this trend ofconvergence. They are continuing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861694
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Job Turnover, Risk Sharing,and Regional Wages in WesternGermany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
We test Krugman’s (1991) notion of risk sharing in pooled labormarkets as one of the micro-foundations of agglomerationeconomies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks fromidiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor pooling.Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover...
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Home market effect versus multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2007
We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number andthe location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases whentrade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production intoa single country, which is likely to be the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868823
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City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861141
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Challenging Clusters : The Prospects and Pitfalls of Clusteringfor Innovation and Economic Development
Andriani, Pierpaolo; Jones, Calvin; Perkmann, Markus; … - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005
Clusters are systems of localised economic activity and innovation. This report reviews current evidence on clustersand develops policy recommendations for the UK. It argues that clusters include multiple firms from related sectorsthat are co-located within a web of complex linkages and a...
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