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Do universities improve local economic resilience?
Howard, Greg; Weinstein, Russell; Yang, Yuhao - 2021
We use a novel identification strategy to investigate whether regional universities make their local economies more resilient to adverse economic shocks. Our strategy is based on state governments assigning normal schools (to train teachers) and insane asylums to counties between 1830 and 1930....
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Business cycle turning points and local labour markets
Taylor, Karl; Bhadury, Soumya; Binner, Jane M.; Mandal, … - 2024
In this paper we consider the predictors of the business cycle in Great Britain, where the claimant count and unemployment rate are found to be key indicators associated with turning points. Next, we consider at a micro-economic level, using disaggregated local authority level data, a number of...
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Shared knowledge and the coagglomeration of occupations
Gabe, Todd M.; Abel, Jaison R. - 2013
concentration ; labor market pooling ; knowledge spillovers ; occupations …
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Technology and work : labour studies in England, Germany and the Netherlands
Buitelaar, Wout (ed.) - 1988
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Competition and Innovation : The Inverted-U Relationship Revisited
Hashmi, Aamir Rafique - 2014
I re-examine the inverted-U relationship between competition and innovation (originally modeled and tested by Aghion et … competition by using a trade-weighted average of industry exchange rates as the instrument. I find a mildly negative relationship … between competition (as measured by the inverse of markups) and innovation (as measured by citation-weighted patents). The …
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Competition and Innovation : The Inverted-U Relationship Revisited
Hashmi, Aamir Rafique - 2014
I re-examine the inverted-U relationship between competition and innovation (originally modeled and tested by Aghion et … competition by using various measures of foreign competition as instruments. I find a positive relationship between competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068583
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The effect of mergers on variety in grocery retailing
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2021
before the merger. While the low-variety target's stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition … chains’ response to changes in local competition. …
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Creative destruction? : impact of e-commerce on the retail sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 70 (2024) 4, pp. 2168-2187
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Employee trust and workplace performance
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379264
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Testing for asymmetry in British, German and US unemployment data
Kohns, Stephan - 2001
macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an …
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