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The identification of spatial dependence in the analysis of regional economic development - join-count test application
Pietrzak, Michał Bernard; Wilk, Justyna; Kossowski, Tomasz - 2014
The content of the article is focused on the problem of spatial dependence identification, referring to the analysis of regional economic development. Economic development, as an economic category, represents a very extensive concept. Within its framework the following problems should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997051
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The application of local indicators for categorical data (LICD) in the spatial analysis of economic development
Pietrzak, Michał Bernard; Wilk, Justyna; Kossowski, Tomasz - 2014
The objective of this paper is to identify classes of regions presenting different economic situations and apply a join-count test to examine spatial dependences between these classes. The test examines spatial autocorrelation on the basis of qualitative data. The global join-count test...
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Local economies and general elections : the influence of municipal and regional economic conditions on voting in Sweden 1985-2002
Elinder, Mikael - 2010
This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters‟ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and …. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with … regional level, is substantial in size, but statistically insignificant. At the municipality level, unemployment has a smaller …
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An assessment of the first round impact of innovation industries on Europe's regional economies
Otoiu, Adrian; Bere, Ramona; Silvestru, Cătălin - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 44, pp. 289-301
unemployment at regional level. Positive effects can be observed for both young and mature workers, and are stronger for the latter … unemployment. The results for countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been to some extent less significant, due to … sizable reduction of unemployment. While the current analysis revealed some of the first-round impacts of the innovation …
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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Gründungen und regionaler Entwicklung
Fritsch, Michael - 2003
Der Beitrag behandelt den Einfluss des Gründungsgeschehens auf die regionale Entwicklung. Viele dieser Wirkungen sind indirekter Natur und müssen sich nicht notwendig in der Region niederschlagen, in der die Gründung stattfand. Empirische Analysen für westdeutsche Regionen zeigen, dass nur...
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Agglomeration, innovation and regional development : theoretical perspectives and meta-analysis
Groot, Henri L. F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - 2007
Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...
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Special economic zones : 20 years later
Jensen, Camilla; Winiarczyk, Marcin - 2014
In this paper the authors undertake an ex-post evaluation of whether the special economic zones (SEZs) introduced in Poland in 1994 have been successful in meeting regional development objectives. They evaluate the policy of as many of its objectives as possible: employment creation, business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241378
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Review of higher education's contribution to regional development in Romania
Popescu, Alina - Irina - 2011
The impact of higher education institutions on the regional economy is now more important the ever, due not only to their role as providers of education and research, but also to their linkages to the economic, social and cultural surroundings. The paper explores the relationship between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535242
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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth
Noseleit, Florian - 2011
The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548154
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Do regions gain from an open economy?
Pernia, Ernesto M.; Lazatin, Janine Elora M. - 2016
This paper looks into whether and how sub-national regions can benefit from a country’s economic openness. Using data on the Philippines, it first notes marked disparities across its regions as reflected in economic and social indicators. The dominance of Metropolitan Manila in the national...
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