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Skills, education and productivity in the KIBS sector : firm level evidence on the presence of externalities

Klaesson, Johan; Wixe, Sofia - 2011

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data

Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript

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-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...

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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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Human capital, R&D and productivity convergence of European regions : a spatial analysis of RHOMOLO's semi endogenous growth approach.

Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2011 - Very preliminary

The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European …

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The impact of knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity : new empirical evidence from selected European countries

Puškárová, Paula; Piribauer, Philipp - 2014

productivity differences among regions within a regression framework in general and the impact of their spillovers on regional … total factor productivity in particular. The focus is laid on interregional spillovers between the Western and Eastern EU … conventional reservoirs of knowledge - patent stocks - falls. Vienna appears to be the largest contributor to the productivity …

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The complementary effects of proximity dimensions on knowledge spillovers

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Usai, Stefano - 2012 - First edition: November 2011, second edition: January 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of various proximity dimensions on the innovative capacity of 276 regions in Europe within a knowledge production function model, where R&D and human capital are included as the main internal inputs. We combine the standard geographical...

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Modeling the growth effects of regional knowledge production : the GMR-Europe model and its applications for EU Framework Program policy impact simulations

Varga, Attila; Járosi, Péter; Sebestyén, Tamás - 2011

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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Cultural distance and gravity effects among migrants : a comparative analysis of the EU15

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

tests the existence of cultural gravity effects on the geographic concentration and human capital productivity of immigrants …) local productivity patterns and the immigrants' contribution to them; (ii) the spatial concentration preferences of … concentration and productivity of local human capital. To provide empirical evidence, we compose a cross-sectional database for the …

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Education or creativity : what matters most for economic performance?

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2011

spatial dependence, we assess the concurrent effect of the human capital indicators on total factor productivity for 257 … an innovative, open, inclusive and culturally diverse environment is becoming more and more crucial for productivity …

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Determinants of regional productivity growth in Europe : an empirical analysis

Bulavskaya, Tatyana; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2011

productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge Econometrics regional database, EU KLEMS growth and productivity … accounts and EuroStat R&D data. We apply a reduced-form empirical specification for semi-endogenous productivity growth that … allows for differences in steady state income levels and long-run growth rates. Productivity growth in a region depends on …

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