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Distribuição espacial de características sociodemográficas e localização de empregos e serviços públicos das vinte maiores cidades do Brasil
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Herszenhut, Daniel; … - 2022
and on the spatial distribution of economic activities and public services. Nonetheless, these data in Brazil are often … care) and referral centers for social assistance services. This edition of the data set covers the twenty largest cities in … Brazil. The data is made publicly available by Ipea through the Access to Opportunities Project website and through the R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013400237
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Estimativas de acessibilidade a empregos e serviços públicos via transporte ativo, público e privado nas vinte maiores cidades do Brasil no período 2017-2019
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira - 2022
methodology for the twenty largest cities in Brazil. This database is made publicly available by the Ipea through the website of …. However, there is still very limited data on urban accessibility in Brazil due to computational and methodological challenges …
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Measuring Knowledge Spillovers in Manufacturing and Services: An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Approaches
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297893
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Do transfer costs matter for foreign remittances?
Ahmed, Junaid; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-4, pp. 1-36
Using bilateral data on remittance flows to Pakistan for 23 major host countries, this is the first study that examines the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. The authors find that the effect of transaction costs on remittance flows is negative and significant; suggesting that a...
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What drives bilateral remittances to Pakistan? A gravity model approach
Ahmed, Junaid; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2014
Formal remittance flows to Pakistan have shown noticeable growth over the past decade. Using bilateral remittance data for 23 major source countries, this study examines the external and internal factors driving these remittance flows during the period 2001-2011. We estimate a gravity model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368305
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Do transfer costs matter for foreign remittances? A gravity model approach
Ahmed, Junaid; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2015
Using bilateral data on remittance flows to Pakistan for 23 major host countries, in the first study of its kind, the authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on remittance flows is negative and significant; suggesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481515
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Distance and Modern Banks' Lending to SMEs: Decentralised versus Centralised Banking in Germany
Flögel, Franz - 2016
By lending to SMEs at low geographical distance, banks can realise competitive advantage due to enhanced access to soft information that allows the better screening of firms. As especially regional banks lend at a low distance, the decentralised German banking system is deemed ideal for SME...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783135
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Spatio-temporal patterns of the international merger and acquisition network
Duenas, Marco; Mastrandrea, Rossana; Barigozzi, Matteo; … - 2017
This paper analyzes the world web of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) using a complex network approach. We use data of M&As to build a temporal sequence of binary and weighted-directed networks, for the period 1995-2010 and 224 countries. We study different geographical and temporal aspects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789757
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Wage and Profitability: Norwegian Manufacturing 1967-1998
Bjørnstad, Roger; Nymoen, Ragnar - 1999
Economic theories of imperfectly competitive labour markets predict that wages are linked to profits. In spite of this, profit variables are not explicitly specified in empirical models of wage formation that otherwise are appealing. Does this mean that theory overplays the role of profitability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968029
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Assessing the impact of incomes policy: The italian experience
Pastore, Francesco - 2010
The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d'intesa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272671