In Europe, there is an increasing shortage of skilled workers and jobs remain vacant for long periods of time. The shortage of skilled workers has become a key issue for various stakeholders, as it not only makes it difficult to recruit and retain employees, but it is also seen as a significant...

We use longitudinal data over a decade on start-ups and employment in Swedish regions and analyze the effect of start-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector on regional employment growth in the same sector and...

Using comprehensive data on bank lending and establishment-level outcomes from 1997-2011, this paper fails to find evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the small business lending channel is an important determinant of small business or overall economic activity. The shift-share style...

Local labor market shocks are difficult to insure against. Using confidential micro data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions through their internal networks of...

We find that over the period 1950-1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...

In Q1 2016, the regional view of the crisis changed insignificantly. Decline of population's income and consumption posted in the majority of regions remain the most acute issue. The тumber of regions which register ongoing investment decline has somewhat fallen. This being said, 2/3 of regions...

I develop a theoretical model to investigate whether clusters moderate the relationship between entrepreneurship and regional development. Distinguishing between industrial agglomerations and clusters, I use a socio-economic approach to integrate disparate theories based on their underlying...

Die Zuwanderung hochqualifizierter Fach- und Führungskräfte ist von großer Bedeutung für die Entwicklungsfähigkeit strukturschwacher und abgelegener Räume. Zwar ist der Arbeitsmarkt für das obere Segment grundsätzlich überregional ausgerichtet und beruflicher Wechsel häufig mit...