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"Location Patterns of Creative Capital and Regional Disparities in Spain"

Kerimoglu, Ebru; Karahasan, B. Can - Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada (IREA), … - 2012

The ‘creative class’ as a source of growth has been afforded increasing attention in recent years. However, creative people are not distributed evenly across space, tending rather to concentrate in particular locations. The location decisions of these creative people have been forwarded as a...

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Evaluierung der Ergebnisse der Neuausrichtung der Wirtschaftsförderung des Landes Brandenburg

Baum, Katja; Ziegenbalg, Björn - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 18 (2011) 01, pp. 23-32

Mit der Neuausrichtung der Wirtschaftsförderung im Land Brandenburg im Jahr 2005 wurde eine stärkere regionale und sektorale Fokussierung der Wirtschaftsförderung durchgesetzt. Die nunmehr 14 förder intensiven Branchenkompetenzfelder (BKF) verfügen in Brandenburg über besondere...

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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...

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Ethnic Inequality

Alesina, Alberto; Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within … construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large sample of countries and show that the latter is strongly inversely related … portion of ethnic inequality contributing to its persistence over time. Third, exploiting across-district within …

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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 138-153

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Shared knowledge and the coagglomeration of occupations

Gabe, Todd M.; Abel, Jaison R. - 2013

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which people in different occupations locate near one another, or coagglomerate. We construct pairwise Ellison-Glaeser coagglomeration indices for U.S. occupations and use these measures to investigate the factors influencing the...

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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William; Goswami, Arti Grover - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Large Mining Enterprises and Regional Development: Between the Enclave and Cluster

Vallone, Andres; Atienza, Miguel - Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional, Facultad de … - 2012

Over the last century, Chile has experienced a demographic and economic transformation that has shaped its economic geography. This article examines the evolution of the chilean urban system between 1885 and 2002. We estimate changes in the Zipf coefficient and the stability of the hierarchy of...

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Evolving city systems

Overman, Henry G.; Venables, Anthony J. - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on the forces driving urbanization in developing countries. It presents a model outlining how globalization can lead to the evolution of an urban structure which may approximate Zipf's law. Policy implications are outlined.

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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012

Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...

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