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The paper aims at analysing the impact of domestic and international tourism on the economic growth process for 179 … regions in ten European countries, which are highly representative of total tourism flows. The econometric analysis is carried … capita at the regional level depends on tourism flows in addition to the traditional production inputs like physical, human …
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In the last decade there has been an upsurge of studies on international comparisons of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The empirical evidence suggests that countries and regions differ not only in traditional factor endowments (labour and physical capital) but mainly in productivity and...
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questions about the viability of the current productive structure of the Greek economy and its over-reliance on tourism. Our …
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In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. The Solow model extended by human capital is employed as a workhorse. Alternative strategies are proposed to control for spatial effects. All specifications...
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Between 2003 and 2005, the German government passed an unprecedented package of labor market reforms, commonly known as the Hartz-reforms. This led to a "labor market miracle" with sharply declining unemployment rates. This paper examines these reforms at the regional level and provides a...
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, in causing economic growth convergence patterns. We find that western and northern parts of Europe have higher pairwise … stochastic convergence (and lower intra-country convergence) rates than regions in East and Southeast Europe. Focusing on the …
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Research trying to explain tourism flows and expenditures for different destinations has so far adopted either a … tourism-demand or a tourism-supply approach. Whereas on the one hand the former ignores the product specificities … will disentangle the effects of both demand and supply variables on a province's tourism exports. Among the former ones …
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The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …
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This paper suggests that one should account for the endogeneity of important explanatory variables and the persistence of technology shocks when analyzing spatial convergence among regions.Specifically, it is argued that a systems approach is called for that includes the average growth rate and...
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While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …
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