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Success or failure? : a multi-dimensional analysis of business-, industry- and region-specific determinants of survival
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - 2010
Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...
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Agglomeration economies in Italy : impact on heterogeneous firms' survival : paper to be presented at the 54th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International,...
Ferragina, Anna Maria; Mazzotta, Fernanda - 2014 - Preliminary draft
The focus of our contribution is to shed light on the importance of firm agglomerations and FDI as drivers of firm survival in Italy. We focus upon different types of agglomeration economies related to the geographical context checking how these economies impact differently on heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499359
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Are social exclusion and poverty measures interrelated? : a study with Spanish data
Sánchez, Cristina; Cortiñas, Pedro; Calvo, José Luís - 2012
One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes … three indicators to calculate it: people at risk-of-poverty after social transfers (persons are at risk of poverty if their …
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Socio-economic inequality in South Africa according to different disparity indices
Hakizimana, Jean-Mari V.; Geyer, Hermanus S. - 2014
The purpose of the paper is to identify areas in South Africa where social-economic disparity exists using 2011 census data. Different indices are used to measure spatial disparity with the aim of finding the most appropriate approach for measuring disparities under different circumstances. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504381
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Determinants of monetary poverty in the European Union
Želinský, Tomáš - 2012
The main objective of the study is to analyze the most important determinants of monetary poverty (at macro-level) in … poverty or social exclusion over 23 percent of EU citizens can be considered poor. In this study a spatial Durbin model (SDM … part of the European Union. The at-risk-of-poverty rate (i.e. monetary poverty indicator) across western EU regions is the …
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Spatial distribution of poverty in the European Union
Stankovicŏvá, Iveta; Želinský, Tomáš - 2013
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Child poverty in a regional perspective : a study of Sweden 1990 and 2010 : a paper prepared for the 53rd European Congress of Regional Science International, 27-31 August 2013, Pa...
Rauhut, Daniel; Lingärde, Svante - 2013
the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616779
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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective
Nunes, Alcina; Sarmento, Elsa de Morais - 2010
We address the post-entry performance of new Portuguese firms by investigating the structural characteristics survival, using both non-parametric methods and semi-parametric methods, for the seven regions of Portugal (NUT II). We also provide a disaggregated analysis by sector and size class,...
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Not always for richer or poorer : the effects of income shocks and house price changes on marital dissolution
Brown, Heather W.; Battu, Harminder; Costa-Gomes, Miguel A. - 2013
There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581527
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A decomposition of multidimensional economic well-being : an application to Spanish regions
Díaz Caro, Carlos; Pérez Mayo, Jesús - 2015 - (Early draft version)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...
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