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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008

Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011

associated with higher productivity levels. In this context, this paper explores the links between urban spatial structure and …

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Productivity spillovers through foreign transactions : the role of sector composition and local conditions

Cuadros Ramos, Ana María; Alguacil Marí, María Teresa - In: Emerging markets finance & trade : a journal of the … 50 (2014), pp. 75-88

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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference

Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2019

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants of cross-border investment relationships. We base our investigation on a newly established firm-level data set of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...

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The impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistribution and productivity

Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi; Günther, Isabel - 2020

This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using …'s productivity slightly increases when they are discriminated against whereas productivity slightly decreases for women and people of …

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Measuring human capital in educaction

Walukiewicz, Stanislaw; Wiktorzak, Aneta Anna - 2011

We consider education as a number of multistage creative processes and analyse one of them - teaching knowledge (process P1) - in detail. In part 1 we describe the idea of Virtual Production Line (VPL), introduced by Walukiewicz in 2006 as an extension of Classical Production Line (CPL), an...

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A spatial panel data version of the knowledge capital model

Bekesi, Daniel; Hammer, Christoph; Koch, Matthias; … - 2011

This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity …

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Labor productivity growth in EU28 : spatial panel analysis

Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015

This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration … the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory … of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process of productivity growth on the on the foundations of the theory of …

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A spatial production economy explains gross metropolitan product

Watanabe, Hiroki - 2015

It has long been known that the city-size distributions are fat tailed, drawing the interest of urban economists. In contrast, not much is known about the distribution of GDP at city level (henceforth referred to as gross metropolitan product, GMP). We build a model of the spatial economy that...

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The impact of production and infrastructure shocks : a non-linear input-output programming approach, tested on an hypothetical economy

Oosterhaven, Jan; Bouwmeester, Maaike C.; Nozaki, Michiya - 2014

This paper develops a methodology to predict and to thus possibly mitigate the economic impacts of major catastrophes, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The short-run impacts are assumed to be determined by the attempts of economic actors to return to the pre-catastrophe economic situation as...

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Regional FDI spillovers and local suppliers : disentangling the effects of foreign ownership, technology gap and absorptive capacity

Jordaan, Jacob A. - 2012

In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...

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