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territorial component of the national innovation system is still underdeveloped. Moreover, research and development activity might … new hardships on the Romanian innovation system. Following a significant rise in research and development funding prior to … hierarchy. The convergence of the regional R&D and innovation system is as an essential component of successful regional …
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The United States is often hailed as the world's largest 'free market'. But this 'free market' is also the world's largest penal colony. It holds over seven million adults – roughly five per cent of the labour force – in jail, in prison, on parole and on probation. Is this an anomaly, or...
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with the analysed phenomena. In this paper, provincial time series of unemployment rates in Spain are used in order to … along time and with the effects of scale in the regionalisation process. Keywords: Unemployment, normative region …
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Labour market is characterized in Spain by a high persistence in unemployment rates. One of the main reasons of this … mainly respond, though weakly, to the differentials of wages, unemployment rates and house prices between regions; third …, migratory flows are also affected, to a great extent, by non economic factors. Keywords: migratory flows, regions, unemployment …
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Most transition economies have experienced a prolonged periods of high unemployment rates and decline of the growth … common development patterns in selected countries. Furthermore, since the unemployment is severe problem in most of the … limitations imposed on the interpretations of our results due to the fact. Key words: RGDP, unemployment, comparative regional …
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local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be … western Germany over the period 1990-97. Key words: Unemployment, wage formation, spatial analysis, local monopsony, Germany …
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variables as well as for labour market factors such as unemployment rates, income and house prices. We compare several model … specifications. Results on employment/unemployment are fairly consistent across models. Results on other variables, for instance …
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, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …
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of unemployment rate and average wages on crime in a region committed by non-residents, as well as implement a gravity …
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-being and paradoxically can be even more harmful than actual job loss with subsequent unemployment. …
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