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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2011
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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Family business and regional development
Basco, Rodrigo (contributor); Stough, Roger (contributor);  … - 2021
experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced …
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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004
This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...
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Dienstleistungen in Ostdeutschland: Beschäftigungsdynamik geringer als in Westdeutschland
Brenke, Karl; Eickelpasch, Alexander; Geppert, Kurt - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 17, pp. 2-11
Der ostdeutsche Dienstleistungssektor hat seit 1995 kontinuierlich Beschäftigung aufgebaut und somit erheblich zur Stabilisierung der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung beigetragen. Allerdings blieben Leistungskraft und Wachstum hinter der Entwicklung in Westdeutschland zurück. Deutliche Defizite -...
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...
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Exploring the economic geography of Ireland
Morgenroth, Edgar - 2008
Only a few research papers have analysed the spatial distribution of economic activity in Ireland. There are a number of reasons for this, not least the fact that comprehensive data on the location of economic activity by sector across all sectors has not been available at the highly...
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Economic geography: Past, present and future
Bagchi-Sen, Sharmistha (contributor);  … - 2006
The impact of economic geography both within and beyond the wider field of geography has been constrained in the past by its own limitations. Drawing together the work of several eminent geographers this superb collection assesses the current state of knowledge in the sub discipline and its...
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Union wage demands with footloose firms
Persyn, Damiaan - 2009
This paper analyses the wage demands of a sector-level monopoly union facing internationally mobile firms. A simple two-country economic geography model is used to describe how firms relocate in function of international di erences in production costs and market size. The union sets wages in...
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Home market effect hypothesis in a multi-country world
Bourtchouladze, Nana - 2007
The home market effect (HME) is commonly defined as a more than proportional supply response to a demand shock. Recent theoretical literature, however, shows that predictions from the traditional twocountry framework do not always survive in multi-country settings. This is because 'third'...
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Home market effects and the single-sector Melitz model
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Jung, Benjamin - 2011
Increasing-returns-to-scale imperfect competition trade models predict a more than proportionate relationship between the larger country's share in world endowments and its share in producing firms: the so called home market effect (HME). While this result plays a key role in empirical testing,...
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