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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270564
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765277
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Knowledge spillovers and economic growth
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry R. - 2002
specialization (a proxy for intra-sectoral spillovers). …
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Overurbanization and its Relation to Economic Growth for Less Developed Countries
Graves, Philip E.; Sexton, Robert L. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042965
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(Un-)related variety and employment growth at the sub-regional level
Firgo, Matthias; Mayerhofer, Peter - 2016
Empirical results on the link between growth and diversity in (un)related industries proved to be highly dependent on the specific regional and temporal context. Making use of highly disaggregated employment data at the sub-regional level, we find that higher employment growth in Austria is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495126
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Unemployment, growth and speed of transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189833
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Test of Okun’s Law in Some Asian Countries Co-Integration Approach
Lal, Irfan; Muhammad, Sulaiman D.; Jalil, M. Anwar; … - 2010
The objective of this paper is to estimate the Okun’s coefficient, and to check the validity of Okun’s law in some Asian countries, whether it is valid or not, for this purpose we have used the time series annual data during the period 1980-2006. Engle Granger (1987) co integration technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197385
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Okun's Law and long term co-integration analysis for OECD Countries (1987 - 2012)
Kargi, Bilal - 2014
, it is known that there is a reverse relation between unemployment and growth known as Okun's Law. This relation …, suggesting that every 1 point decrease in unemployment induces a 3 point increase in growth, is tested for many countries. In … difference in coefficients. At the same time, long term relation between growth and unemployment is tested with the use of time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380133
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Individuals' unemployment durations over the business cycle
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001
Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403854
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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075132