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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society: The case of german convergence in self-employment
Schindele, Yvonne - 2010
Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there has been an ambitious political goal of fostering entrepreneurial activity in that part of the country. One of the most-hoped for results of this undertaking is the anticipated...
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City networks and the socio-ecological transition. A European inventory
Labaeye, Adrien; Sauer, Thomas - 2013
Area 5 focuses on the regional and local dimensions of the new European path to socio-ecological transition. Its central assumption is that any strategy developed to enhance a socio-ecological transition is unlikely to yield strong results unless the resources of regional and local actors are...
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Resource misallocation in European firms: The role of constraints, firm characteristics and managerial decisions
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Švejnar, Jan; … - 2018
Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Svejnar, Jan; … - 2018
Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873405
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Structural change, productivity growth and Structural Funds in European regions
Pontarollo, Nicola - 2013
A key factor for a stable and solid development is the gain in labor productivity. The regions that manage to pull out of poverty and improve the living standards of their inhabitants, in fact, need to be able to diversify away from agriculture and other traditional sectors. In doing this, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397447
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The 20th Jubilee Colloquium on Regional Sciences: A Conference Report
Klímová, Viktorie; Žítek, Vladimír; Viturka, Milan - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 17 (2017) 2, pp. 209-215
The history of the International Colloquium on Regional Sciences reaches back to 1998. Over the years, its format has dramatically changed and the Colloquium has become a respected event, which attracts dozens of experts from the field of regional research every year. The contributions focus on...
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Introducing Railway Time in the Balkans: Economic effects of railway construction in Southeast Europe and beyond since the early 19th century until present days
Alvarez, Eduard; Holzner, Mario; Jestl, Stefan; … - 2016
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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Megacities and Countries: Urbanization and Real Convergence
Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - 2014
A new urban revolution begun in the second half of the XX century and it is going to challenge the relation between the size and economic role of cities: on one side, the last decades have witnessed the emergence and the never seen growth of a number of Mega-cities, with more than 9 million...
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The enable program in the European entrepreneurship policy context
Audretsch, David B.; Grimm, Heike - 2008
This article discusses the Lisbon Agenda from the perspective of entrepreneurship policy. After a brief overview of the … authors illustrate the necessity to promote entrepreneurship in order to foster economic growth in communities and regions. We … community initiatives and demonstrate that a greater focus on entrepreneurship policy could strengthen the Lisbon Strategy and …
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The geography of creative people in Germany revisited
Fritsch, Michael; Stuetzer, Michael - 2012
It has been argued that creativity is an important source of regional growth. This paper investigates the geography of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places...
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