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For the last decades, regions in the United States have been diverging. More skill-intensive regions have experienced a higher wage and skill premium growth and had become even more skill-intensive. In this paper, I show that this may be driven in part by trade with China. One of the main...
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Regional differences in GDP per capita, productivity, employment and poverty in Lithuania are among the largest in the OECD, and they have increased over the last decade. The country still recovers from the legacy of the Soviet planning system which aimed at balanced geographical distribution of...
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This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...
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This paper deals with the relationship between knowledge, innovation and regional growth. The study is carried out … regression can be used for the identi...cation of spatial patterns. In this respect, we ...find a cluster of innovation …
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sustainable knowledge-based living and working environment in Portugal. Most initiatives under the Digital Cities and Regions … technologies (ICTs) by public administrations across the EU. Portugal has been strategically involved in a catching-up process with … high investments in the areas of innovation and ICT infrastructures. This paper is based on the field work and on the …
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