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The paper evaluates the effectiveness of a major Italian place-based policy (Contratti di Programma), by means of which the state approves and finances industrial projects proposed by private firms. Using the areas to be exposed to the same policy at a later date as counterfactuals, the study...
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This paper measures the impact of wage zones � minimum wage differentials at the province level � on Italy's local labor markets during the 1950s. Using a spatial regression discontinuity design, it finds that for the industrial sectors covered under wage zones there was an increase in...
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Åland Islands, a small Finnish island region with its own governmental powers, is rapidly aging together with its neighboring regions in mainland Finland and Sweden. The demographic momentum affects its labor market in various ways. Aging will keep exits from labor market high in the near...
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Local Development that Money Can't Buy: Italy's Contratti di Programma The paper evaluates the effectiveness of a major Italy's place-based policy (Contratti di Programma), through which the Government endorses and finances an industrialization plan proposed by private firms. By using as...
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Nowadays it is more and more important to know that how certain units of regional economy (enterprises, higher education institutions, other units) affect local economy. The economic impact analysis of higher education institutions is more complex than the impact analysis of enterprises, since...
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We study the effect of increases in state minimum wages on the prices of several fast-food items using quarterly city-level data from 1993-2012, a period during much of which the federal minimum wage declined in real value while state-level legislation flourished. For two products, burgers and...
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This study examines spatial variation in the price and accessibility of fast food across a major urban area. We use novel data on the price of a representative fast food meal and the location of fast food restaurants belonging to one of three major chains in the District of Columbia and its...
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information reduce the benefits of the spillover and affect the entry process. I derive the effects this delay has on diffusion …I study the relation between the delay in the transmission of spillovers of information and diffusion. When a firm … enters or innovates it benefits from the information it gets by observing past entry. Delays in the process of receiving the …
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Cross-country or cross-industry studies of technology diffusion typically estimate how independent factors affect … diffusion speed or timing, often based on a two-stage approach. In many applications, however, countries (industries) differ … most in the saturation level of diffusion. In a novel, single-stage econometric approach to a standard diffusion model, we …
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Cross-country or cross-industry studies of technology diffusion typically estimate how independent factors affect … diffusion speed or timing, often based on a two-stage approach. In many applications, however, countries (industries) differ … most in the saturation level of diffusion. In a novel, single-stage econometric approach to a standard diffusion model, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970438