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The determinants of local employment dynamics in Western Germany
Fuchs, Michaela - 2009
Im Zentrum dieses Artikels steht die Frage, wie sich die Art der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsentwicklung in einer Region auswirkt und welchen zeitlichen Einflüssen diese Zusammenhänge unterliegen. Aufbauend auf einer Studie für Frankreich von Combes/Magnac/Robin...
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Infrastructure and economic growth in Peru
Urrunaga, Roberto; Aparicio, Carlos - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2012
This article reviews the literature analysing the importance of infrastructure for economic growth, and performs an econometric estimation to discover the relation between the two variables in the case of Peru. Different estimators are used with panel data from the 24 regions of Peru for the...
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Marshall or Jacobs? : answers to an unsuitable question from an interaction model
Lehmann, Robert; Kluge, Jan - 2012
This paper investigates whether localization economies as brought forward by Marshall (1890) or urbanization economies as mentioned by Jacobs (1970) are more decisive for regional gross value added per capita. Our novel approach is to explicitly allow for interdependencies between these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516048
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Where do we go from here? : market access and regional development in Italy (1871 - 1911)
Missiaia, Anna - 2015
Italy has been characterized, throughout its history as a unified country, by large regional differentials in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281977
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Macro-Regions, Local Systems, and Cities : The Conceptualisation of Territory in Italy Since 1950
Calafati, Antonio - 2015
territorial organisation of the economy. In retrospect, one can discern a conceptual trajectory from the classic 'Northern Italy …'/'Southern Italy' partition to interpretation of the territory as a pattern of local systems. But, as the paper suggests, the concept … territorial organisation of the economic process in Italy.If the economic importance of cities is not acknowledged, it is …
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The contribution of universities to growth : empirical evidence for Italy
Carree, Martin Anthony; Della Malva, Antonio; … - 2011 - Version: October 21, 2011
New entrepreneurial ventures may represent a viable and effective mechanism to transform academic knowledge into regional economic growth. We test this notion for the Italian provinces between 2001 and 2006. We evaluate three outputs of academic activities: teaching, research and Intellectual...
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Measuring Cultural Diversity at a Regional Level
Dohse, Dirk; Gold, Robert - 2013
This paper discusses alternative measures of cultural diversity to be used in subsequent investigations of the impacts of cultural diversity on regional development in Europe. It derives indicators for the measurement of cultural diversity from the literature and describes possible adjustments...
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The impact of regional supply and demand conditions on job creation and destruction
Krumm, Raimund; Strotmann, Harald - 2010
This paper gives an empirical analysis of the impact of regional conditions on regional manufacturing employment growth. Based upon a firm-level panel of manufacturing establishments in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, which can be aggregated to regional panel data for forty-four counties, both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271467
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The effect of new business formation on employment : the dominance of density
Schroeter, Alexandra - 2009
Empirical analyses show that the employment effects of start-ups are highest in agglomerations, whereas moderately congested areas exhibit only modest effects, and weak or even no significant effects could be found in rural regions. This paper will set out to show that these discrepancies arise...
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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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