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Diversity of human capital and regional growth

Noseleit, Florian; Söllner, Rene - 2010

In this paper we study the impact of diversity on regional growth by extending the existing literature in such that we … evidence that regions with higher degrees of human capital diversity exhibit higher GDP-per-capita and employment growth, as … diversification encourage knowledge spillover and therefore promote regional growth mainly focused on the diversity of the regional …

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The long and short of financing government spending

Mankart, Jochen; Priftis, Romanos; Oikonomou, Rigas - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022

This paper shows that debt-financed fiscal multipliers vary depending on the maturity of debt issued to finance spending. Utilizing state-dependent SVAR models and local projections for post-war US data, we show that a fiscal expansion financed with short term debt increases output more than one...

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Human capital and international portfolio diversification : a reappraisal

Bretscher, Lorenzo; Julliard, Christian; Rosa, Carlo - In: Journal of international economics 99 (2016), pp. 78-96

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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth

Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)

and sanitation. Building on previous evidence on urban concentration and economic growth, in this paper we analyse … urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … urban concentration (something that previous studies on urban concentration and economic growth have not considered …

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Creative professionals and high-skilled agents' : polarization of employment growth? : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain

Wedemeier, Jan - 2011

The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that … employment and on creative sector's employment growth in western Germany's regions from 1977 to 2004. For the analysis, the de … growth rate of total employment. The results show, moreover, that an initially large share of regional creative professionals …

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Long-lasting labour market consequences of German unification

Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; Phan thi Hong Van; … - 2015 - (Final version: Sept. 14, 2015)

This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold...

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Human capital and firm relocation : why footloose firms are a rare breed

Morkute, Gintare - 2015

This paper examines the role that human capital plays in firm's strategic decisions. It focuses on long-distance corporate relocations which present certain trade-offs in terms of human capital and modifies firms' relationship with the labour force. It is assessed to what extent having (an...

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Matching higher education offer with labour market needs till 2020 : the case of Lodzkie region

Arendt, Lukasz; Rzenca, Agnieszka - 2014

Transformation to post-industrial or knowledge-based economies causes changes in the structure of labour markets with growing demand on highly-qualified workforce. In XXI century human capital has become one of the most important production factors determining competitiveness and innovativeness...

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Innovation, decentralization, and planning in a multi-region model of Schumpeterian economic growth

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … possibilities frontier that is consistent with balanced economic growth. Third, we derive the growth rate of the ith region in the …

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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII ERSA conference, Bratislava, August 2012

Orrù, Enrico - 2012

This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...

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