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This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city … areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250 … resolution. A doubling of density in a 250 meter square is associated with a 3.7 percent increase in wages, holding individual …
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Discussion on the possibilities for and barriers to income convergence and catch-up growth is at the heart of the debate on European regional economic policy. This study presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of regional productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge...
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This paper introduces cultural gravity as a new concept for analyzing socio-economic disparities among immigrants. It tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants. Using cultural distance as a proxy for the local...
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This paper introduces the Geographic Macro and Regional (GMR) model for NUTS-2 regions of the Euro zone. This model consists of three blocks: the TFP, the SCGE and the MACRO blocks. The model is built for impact analysis of policies targeting intangible assets in the forms of R&D, human capital...
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employment and on creative sector's employment growth in western Germany's regions from 1977 to 2004. For the analysis, the de …
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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