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High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...
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An entrepreneurial perspective to introduction of sustainable energy solutions to the market has been recognized as important for decades, but mainly concerning large firms. Today, attention is increasingly turning to young high-technology ventures which, compared to large incumbents, are more...
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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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The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …
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A number of powerful forces have produced uneven opportunities for occupational advancement in Scotland. Edinburgh as … social and occupational mobility. One would certainly anticipate that this is true compared with the urban areas in Scotland …, migration, ethnicity, country of birth and place of residence in Scotland. We do this using longitudinal census data linking …
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The idea that living in a deprived neighbourhood negatively affects the occupational mobility of residents has been embraced enthusiastically by many policy makers and academics. As a result, area based initiatives are now widely used to improve an individual's life course through the...
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