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The paper aims at analysing the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 … regions in ten European countries, which are highly representative of total tourism flows. The econometric analysis is carried … capita at the regional level depends on tourism flows in addition to the traditional production inputs like physical, human …
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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273804
This paper suggests that one should account for the endogeneity of important explanatory variables and the persistence of technology shocks when analyzing spatial convergence among regions.Specifically, it is argued that a systems approach is called for that includes the average growth rate and...
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Introduction: This paper analysis the spatial dynamics of the development of tourism industry in a leading tourism … destination in Portugal. Previous studies focused on the spatial dynamics of the tourism industry had shown that, at the very … begin, hotels and tourism facilities are located in the main city and surrounding areas along the coast. Then, the …
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We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...
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This paper addresses the question to what extent the performance of industrial sites is affected by their local economic structure and accessibility. For this aim, we test for the existence of statistically significant relationships between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity,...
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the EU's neighborhood. The tourism sector particularly tends to agglomerate regionally and even locally. While there is a … large body of literature describing tourism clusters and while tourism features as a priority sector in many regional … agglomeration-oriented policy concepts to tourism destinations in an institution-sensitive way. This article argues that both …
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international tourist arrivals (Western Europe) and a developing one (Romania), from a growing tourism sub-region (Central …The issue of sustainable tourism and its potential contribution to regional development and convergence within the EU …, currently, the European tourism industry is facing a loss in competitiveness at the global level due to a reduction in its share …
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