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Should place-based jobs policies be used to help distressed communities?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2019
Should policymakers seek to increase jobs in particular local labor markets? Yes, but only if these policies are well targeted and designed. Encouraging job growth in distressed places can cause persistent gains in employment-to-population ratios. But our current place-based jobs policies, under...
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Assessing regional inequalities in Kazakhstan through well-being
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Bartalucci, Federico; … - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 41 (2024) 1, pp. 301-333
Growing disparities in wealth, well-being, and access to services in Kazakhstan have raised serious concerns among policymakers, especially since the January 2022 protests. This paper evaluates these regional inequalities and presents the findings from Kazakhstan's inaugural well-being survey....
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An anaylsis in order to measure of regional development agencies performance and their impacts to the regional growth in Turkey
Bas, Ahmet; Yüzer, Mehmet Alý - 2014
, however, in less developed countries RDAs are worked to increase the usage of natural sources and to reduce the unemployment …
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Strategies for Reducing Regional Disparities in Romania
Stefanescu, Razvan; Dumitriu, Ramona - 2021
The disparities in the development of a country’s regions could threat the social and political equilibrium of a nation. In general, the reduction of such disparities is a complex task for the governments, involving substantial resources and long periods of time. This paper approaches the...
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Regional inequalities in Central and Eastern European countries : the role of capital regions and metropolitan areas
Psycharis, Yannis; Kallioras, Dimitris; Pantazis, Panayotis - In: Economic development and financial markets : latest …, (pp. 3-20). 2020
The aim of this chapter is to provide empirically supported evidence regarding regional development and inequalities in the European Union by focusing specifically on the Central and Eastern European countries. The process of European integration has impacted on the growth potential of all...
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Investigating economic synergy in the spatial structure of Tehran metropolitan region
Zarghami, Saeid; Tavakolinia, Jamileh; Sarrafi, Mozaffar - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 2, pp. 1-21
's transition from monocentric to functional polycentric, enhancing the economic role of medium‐sized cities, creating specialized …
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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment : A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco - 2012
This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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Ready, set, go! : why are some regions entrepreneurial jump-starters?
Wyrwich, Michael - 2013
that pre- dates socialism. How institutional context affects entrepreneurship over the course of transition is reflected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189319
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What should Michigan be doing to promote long-run economic development?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2009
I thank Claire Black and Wei-Jang Huang for assistance in preparing this paper. I appreciate the comments of George Erickcek on a preliminary version of this paper. This paper was previously presented on November 20, 2009 at the 57th Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the Research Seminar in...
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