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How city type, trust and technology affect corruption : a multilevel comparative study : ERSA 55th Congress
Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stepien, Paulina - 2015 - Submission 909 (extended abstract with results)
In this study we investigate how both local environment and individual characteristics explain incidence of corruption. More specifically, we explore how city size, and residing in a capital city influence the two aspects of corruption, notably in individuals' contact with officials, and in the...
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Fighting persistent regional unemployment : the Paltamo Full Employment experiment
Hämäläinen, Kari; Hamalainen, Ulla - 2012
persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …
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European performances regarding flexicurity : the case of the new member states
Chilian, Mihaela-Nona; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Iordan, Marioara - 2010
successful switching between educational system and labor market, between jobs, between unemployment and inactivity and …
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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
, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …
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Investing in lagging regions is efficient : a local multipliers analysis of U.S. cities
Dijk, Jasper J. van - 2015
with the unemployment rate. It also predicts that the share of newly created jobs fulfilled by current inhabitants of a … city increases with the unemployment rate. I test this model with data from the United States census between 1980 and 2000 … city with 3.7% unemployment the average local employment multiplier is 0.91 for current inhabitants and 0.60 for migrants …
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Labour market institutions and regional unemployment disparities
Huber, Peter - 2013
housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …
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From periphery to core : economic adjustments to high speed rail
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - 2010 - Version: September 2010
promote economic activity within regions that enjoy an increase in accessibility. Our results on the one hand confirm …
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Territorial capital and regional growth : increasing returns in cognitive knowledge use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
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Do active innovation policies matter? : Findings from a survey on the Hong Kong electronics SMEs
Liu, Wan-hsin (contributor) - 2008
Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...
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