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The knowledge regions in the enlarged Europe
Colombelli, Alessandra; Foddi, Marta; Paci, Raffaele - 2011
Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world relying specifically on the increase and strengthen of its human capital and technological endowments. However, given the presence of localized externalities in the knowledge...
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Decomposing gender wage gaps : a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2021
pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …
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Creative professionals and high-skilled agents' : polarization of employment growth? : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain
Wedemeier, Jan - 2011
The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that the clustering of human capital might result in the polarization of economic development. Since the creative sector's de nition is motivated from the insights of the economics...
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The competitive advantage of a peripheral university town : human and social capital perspectives from Joensuu, Finland : conference paper resented in: Regions in motion - breaking...
Makkonen, Teemu - 2012 - Draft
The positive impacts of social and human capital on individual, firm and geographical level are well known. Accordingly, the literature on social capital has advocated the impacts of social networks, norms and trust in securing individual and mutual benefits. Already, the early literature on...
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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
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Spatial mobility and wage profiles : the role of general and location specific human capital matching
Morkutė, Gintarė - 2016
While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...
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A cohort integration analysis of work and education participation among internal mobile and non-mobile immigrants by reason for immigration
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2016
The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants' participation versus non-participation in the regional labour markets … and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees …, labor-, family- and education-immigrants and Nordic immigrants with special focus on those who do not move domestically …
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The complementary effects of proximity dimensions on knowledge spillovers
Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Usai, Stefano - 2012 - First edition: November 2011, second edition: January 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of various proximity dimensions on the innovative capacity of 276 regions in Europe within a knowledge production function model, where R&D and human capital are included as the main internal inputs. We combine the standard geographical...
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US : differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río Otero, Coral del; Alonso Villar, Olga - 2011
Using the 2005-2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity across states. Although the unconditional analysis shows great geographical variation in segregation, with the largest levels in the Southwest, the analysis of segregation...
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The impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistribution and productivity
Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi; Günther, Isabel - 2020
This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using … redistribute earnings by voting on a tax rate for the group. Discrimination against women highly increases preferred tax rates and … discrimination against whites or people of color moderately increases the demand for redistribution. The results indicate that …
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