The current immigration of refugees leads to a discussion about links between rural development and migration. Some …? And which framework conditions and governance arrangements for integration are conducive to using these opportunities …? With regard to the attractiveness of various rural areas in Germany for immigration and their integration abilities, the …

In this paper we study the impact of diversity on regional growth by extending the existing literature in such that we … differentiate between industry diversity and human capital diversity. In order to measure human capital diversity we construct a … evidence that regions with higher degrees of human capital diversity exhibit higher GDP-per-capita and employment growth, as …

economic agents. A frequently discussed source of such externalities is regional diversity of the industry structure. A large … number of empirical studies support the argument that regional diversity can be beneficial to regional employment, innovation …, and economic stability. It is not particularly surprising that diversity in the industry structure can be assumed to …

propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …-level production function to show that close proximity to employment density in the own industry, as well as city-wide diversity …

INTEGRATION Within the process of defining statistic regionalization in the countries being candidates and the potential …

Key words: regional inequalities, localist movements, integration, Castilla-Catalonia, Flanders-Wallonia The expansive … open market and the integration of local economic systems. This has as central component the establishment of supranational … institutional forms (such as European Union). Economic integration combined with the function of the open market did not result in …