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its role in the creation of new knowledge suggest that productivity of knowledge creation in a region with a homogeneous …
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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-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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Biodiversity has a prominent role in defining and preserving ecosystem well-being; the analysis of biodiversity effects on agricultural production is well documented. The paper offers empirical evidence on the role of intra-species biodiversity in sustaining cereal production within Italian...
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.2%, high job creation and a sharp increase in public and private spending. However, this masked low productivity, a growing … of within regional productivity. In doing so, the paper firstly presents a sythetic description of the features that have …
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One of the key issues in economics is the explanation of unemployment and its variation across different economies. Doing so, modern mainstream macroeconomics refers to the effects of financial crises and to institutional structures and their variation across countries. However, unemployment...
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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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might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …
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The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate … labour productivity, market and non-market services in the first years and a slightly divergence in the second period. Sigma …
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productivity. To analyze the effect of manufacturing firms' detailed distribution patterns on the productivity of manufacturing … relationship between Entrepreneurships and productivity. And mixed effects were checked. These tests were applied to an exhaustive … productivity, (ii) the average distance to other firms has positive effect below the specific distance and negative effect beyond …
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