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In this paper we analyse the economic effects of railway infrastructure at the national level for European countries as well as at the local level for Southeast European cities based on a novel railway database capturing decades of the 19th century up to the early 21th century. A panel fixed...
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This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya. Mahila Samakhya, which embodied feminist philosophy and pedagogy, started in 1987 with the...
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We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development. What is the state of empirical research in this field,...
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The basic patterns of the initial Indonesian party system have reemerged after more than four decades of authoritarianism. The cleavage model by Lipset and Rokkan is well-suited to analyzing the genesis of and the most salient features of this party system. However, in applying the approach,...
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This paper examines the evolution of a skew distribution of firm sizes from the viewpoint of the 'Bounds' approach to market structure. It confines attention to the role played by non-strategic factors (statistical independence, and cost side effects). A model is proposed, which leads to a...
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A quality-adjusted specification of labor is suggested which allows firm training to affect labor efficiency. To assess the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The empirical analysis uses panel data for eight plants in the...
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dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training … programs of enterprises. Differences between small, medium-sized, and large enterprises and between countries are also … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …
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position. A very important role in improving the innovativeness of enterprises, regions or the national economy is played by …
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Implementation and usage of the latest inventions in information technology provides enterprises better position on the … improve many of the enterprises collaboration operations and support decision making process. The best results of RFID usage …. Goal of this paper is to evaluate trends and purposes of RFID usage among enterprises in European Union. We also analyse …
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