Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 589
Cover Image
Regional resilience to displacements : explaining the regional capacity to re-employ displaced workers
Nyström, Kristina - 2015
.g. Hammermesh 1989 and OECD (2013). However, knowledge about regional differences in patterns of displacements and regional … resilience to displacements is still limited. For instance, Eliasson and Storrie (2006) note that prior to their study knowledge … about regional patterns of Swedish displacements is primarily based on case studies. Using individual-firm level data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478297
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487793
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516321
Cover Image
Market failure vs. system failure as a rationale for EU regional policy? : a critique from an evolutionary economic perspective
Schmidt, Peter - 2015 - Draft
This paper reconsiders the economic explanation of EU regional policy from an evolution- ary perspective. It contrasts the neoclassical equilibrium notions of market and government failure with the prevalent evolutionary neo-Schumpeterian and Austrian-Hayekian perceptions. Based on this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479448
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483712
Cover Image
Enhancing the innovativeness of local production systems : Polish experiences
Nowakowska, Aleksandra; Sokołowicz, Mariusz E.; … - 2014
Interest in territorial forms of organisation of production is currently at its peak, both among researchers striving to describe and explain various phenomena and among practitioners - representatives of authorities, entrepreneurs or experts involved in developing the idea. On this basis, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499426
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509185
Cover Image
The winners' choice : sustainable economic strategies for successful 21st century regions
Partridge, Mark D.; Olfert, M. Rose - 2010
Throughout the second half of the 20th Century, urbanization, new technologies, rapid labor-saving productivity growth in primary industries, and improved highways combined to create large-scale rural-urban functionally integrated regions. These forces have raised the stakes for regions in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528858
Cover Image
Sources of knowledge and innovation : an empirical text at a Pan-European regional level
Barrutia, José M.; Echebarria, Carmen - 2013
Innovation performance seems to rely on efficiently integrating and extending different pieces of various types of knowledge emerging from diverse external sources. Different research traditions have stressed both formal (FSK) and informal sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532005
Cover Image
Regional development in Spain 1989-2010 : capital widening and productivity stagnation
Montes-Solla, Paulino; Faiña, Andres; López … - 2016
This paper analyses the different factors that explain the pattern of economic growth in Spain along the last two decades, where has stood out the rapid growth of per capita income, capital accumulation and creation of employment. However, the most important structural phenomenon of the strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491263