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Since Solow’s (1957) contribution, human capital has a central role in the debate on economic growth as a leading long period development factor. If from a theoretical point of view the role of human capital on economic growth both directly and throughout its use in R&D activities is fully...
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creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that … relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and noncognitive skills. It shows that this microfoundation is similar to that of …
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This study contrasts the traditional tests for regional convergence in Mexico, those applied on cross-section data as long as the ones built in cointegration in time series, with a new approach based in the trend in the income gap regarding a leader state. Applying this method we show that the...
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Assessing regional growth and convergence across Europe is a matter of primary importance, either in light of the effectiveness of cohesion policies, or in terms of the expectations of New Entrants. Empirical models that not account for structural heterogeneities and spatial effects could fail...
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The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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This article provides an empirical assessment of the growth experiences of European regions, during the period 1991-2004, by taking into account the spatial effects due to both institutions and geography. These effects have been modeled by means of specific controls and by using a...
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The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states from two pools, the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund. The main goal of the associated transfers is to facilitate convergence of poor regions (in terms of per-capita income) to the EU average. We use data at...
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The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states from two pools, the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund. The main goal of the associated transfers is to facilitate convergence of poor regions (in terms of per-capita income) to the EU average. We use data at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684675
This article provides an empirical assessment of the growth experiences of European regions, during the period 1991-2004, by taking into account the spatial effects due to both institutions and geography. These effects have been modelled by means of specific controls and by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855341
This paper examines the relationship between human capital and productivity growth with reference to Italian regions, testing the neoclassical and the Schumpeterian hypotheses by means of sectoral data. The former stresses the accumulation of human capital as a determinant of growth, while the...
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