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The determinants of local employment dynamics in Western Germany

Fuchs, Michaela - 2009

Betrieben, die Unterschiede zwischen Westdeutschland und Frankreich sind nur gering. -- Regional labor markets ; specialization …Im Zentrum dieses Artikels steht die Frage, wie sich die Art der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur auf die … für Frankreich von Combes/Magnac/Robin (2004) wird das Wachstum der Gesamtbeschäftigung unterteilt in internes Wachstum …

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Regional growth regimes revisited - the case of West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004

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Regional growth regimes revisited : the case of West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004

Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...

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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...

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Determining the impact of cultural diversity on regional economies in Europe

Dohse, Dirk; Gold, Robert - 2014

In recent decades, the ethnic composition of the European population has changed substantially, leading to a rapid increase of cultural diversity in the EU as a whole, at the level of individual member states, and at the regional level. This paper focusses on the regional level and investigates...

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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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Evolution of regional disparities in Romania : a shift-share analysis

Chilian, Mihaela-Nona - 2011

The paper aims to assess the evolution of the development disparities (output, employment, overall and by sectors) in the regions and counties of Romania. Using classic and spatial shift-share analysis tools, we investigate the extent to which the existing interregional and, especially,...

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The impact of the economic crisis on the regional disparities in Croatia : paper prepared for: 54th ERSA Congress, 26 - 29 August 2014 - St. Petersburg, Russia

Fröhlich, Zlatan; Đokić, Irena; Rašić Bakarić, Ivana - 2014

The economic crisis has affected the EU regions very differently over the last five years, depending on the region's strengths or weaknesses, its sectoral structure and the response of national and regional governments. In some countries, downturns can lead to narrower interregional disparities,...

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An exam of the spatial patterns of innovation in Brazilian industry : an empirical analysis : paper presented at ERSA 2012 52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Association International - Bratislava, Slovakia - 21st - 25th August

Araujo, Veneziano de Castro; Garcia, Renato - 2012

The aim of this paper is to exam the spatial patterns of innovative performance in Brazilian industry, taking into account its regional interdependencies, and the impact of the main innovative inputs. There is a huge literature concerning regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in...

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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 levels of income, industrialization and socio-economic development. This paper aims at testing the New Economic Geography hypothesis on the role of market access in explaining these...

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