We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty Iranian provinces from 2007 to 2015. Our panel fixed effects and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations show that the level of income per capita (with negative effect),...

Resilience is a physical, engineering and ecological concept. Recently it has attracted attention from regional analyst and it could be a key aspect of the dynamic of spatial economic system (Reggiani et al., 2002), especially concerning how such system responds to shocks, disturbances, and...

During the last decade a new concept has emerged in the regional science debate, the notion of regional resilience, defined as the ability of a region to prevent, prepare, respond and recover after a disturbance, in order that this disturbance does not stand as an obstacle to the region¢s...

This paper aims to contribute to the identification of the key parameters of cluster life cycles. We assume that clusters are embedded in larger technological fields, so that the search for these parameters focuses on the way by which clusters could disconnect their cycle from the cycle of...

Taking into account the most flattering studies, only 40% of new companies surpass the critical seven years of existence and just a 3% of startups go on to scale up. Nonetheless, 45.8% of all founders have failed at least once in the past, and therefore, they can be classified as serial...

The concept of resilience has been recently investigated from the perspective of several disciplines. This extensive research has brought many approaches anchoring the key definitions, linked to both the notion of stability in dynamics (return to the previous equilibrium after a shock) and to...

Individuelle Resilienz trägt maßgeblich zur psychischen Gesundheit von Individuen bei, da durch sie Krisen und Herausforderungen besser bewältigt werden können. Resiliente Individuen besitzen die Fähigkeit, auch in krisenhaften Phasen handlungsfähig zu bleiben und diese besser zu...

Verkaufspersonal im Einzelhandel sieht sich zahlreichen psychischen Beanspruchungen ausgesetzt. Dass diese ohne geeignete Gegenmaßnahmen häufig zu Belastungen werden, machen Krankenkassenberichte deutlich. Ziel dieser Studie war deshalb die Untersuchung von Resilienz als mögliche...