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French enterprise zone program : did it help the residents of deprived neighborhoods?

Charnoz, Pauline - 2014

This paper evaluates the effect of the French enterprise zone program on residents of these deprived neighborhoods. A second contribution is the evaluation of the composition effects in the zones and of externalities on the neighbors of the enterprise zones. The third contribution is the...

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Education in rural areas : a statistical approach

Dinculescu, Corina-Georgeta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 408-415). 2022

An overall picture of the education system in the countryside reveals that there are still schools that are not connected to the drinking water and sewerage systems, where the toilet is in the school yard. There are still schools where children stay in classrooms dressed up with outdoor clothing...

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Regional concentration and confidence regions

Auer, Ludwig von; Stepanyan, Andranik; Trede, Mark - 2015

Industries necessarily differ with respect to their type of geographical concentration. When some industries are overrepresented in urban areas (urban concentration), then some other industries must be overrepresented in rural areas (rural concentration). Unfortunately, the existing measures of...

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An increase in the retirement age in China : the regional economic effects

Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2015

China?s pension system is in need of comprehensive reform in that it is fragmented in its coverage and significantly under-funded. Attempts to improve the coverage will likely exacerbate the financial strains. Thus it is urgent to improve the financial sustainability of the system and one policy...

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Economic crisis and regional disparities

Gaki, Eleni; Angelis, Vasilis A.; Dimaki, Katerina; … - 2012

Europe as we know it, the European Union of 27 countries, has evolved from the European Coal and Steel Union of a few developed countries in a comprehensive economic and political union, which now embraces and unites most of the European continent (EU 2011). Each successive transformation and...

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The impact of structural and macroeconomic factors on regional productivity

D'Costa, Sabine; Garcilazo, Enrique; Oliveira-Martins, … - 2012

We aim to understand the impact of nation-wide structural policies such as product market regulation and employment protection legislation and that of macroeconomic factors such as trade exposure, inflation and the level of government debt on the economic growth of regions in the OECD. In...

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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis

Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012

The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...

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Selected types of infrastructure in the Czech Republic : a regional perspective

Sucháček, Jan - 2012

Transport, social as well as some other types of infrastructure represent an important component of system macrostructures. In advanced countries, these system macrostructures are usually - though not necessarily - approximately bound to the existing settlement system. There are only little...

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Modern trends and risks in the development of resource regions of Russia

Il'ina, Irina N.; Leonard, Carol Scott; Pliseckij, … - 2014

largest "donor" to the federal budget, against the background of other mineral resource abundant regions. It traces … developments since the dramatic budget reforms (late 1990s through 2005), including centralization of revenues and rationalized … program expenditure (Alexeev and Weber 2013). It assesses regional budget and debt management in response to pressures from …

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On regional specialization of high- and low-tech industries

Huovari, Janne; Lehto, Eero - 2011

Industries have varying abilities to benefit from externalities associated with geographical concentration, and are also likely to suffer in different degrees from crowding costs. This makes industries differ in their concentration process. We hypothesize that firms with low education levels...

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