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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024

We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...

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Neural Networks for Regional Employment Forecasts: Are the Parameters Relevant?

Patuelli, Roberto; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter; … - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2009

In this paper, we present a review of various computational experiments concerning neural network (NN) models developed for regional employment forecasting. NNs are nowadays widely used in several fields because of their flexible specification structure. A series of NN experiments is presented...

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Employer-provided training and knowledge spillovers: evidence from Italian local labour markets

Croce, Giuseppe; Ghignoni, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Following suggestions from theoretical and empirical literature on agglomeration and on social returns to education which emphasise the contribution of local knowledge spillovers to productivity and wage growth, this paper aims at uncovering the relationship between local human capital and...

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Marshallian labour market pooling: Evidence from Italy

Andini, Monica; de Blasio, Guido; Duranton, Gilles; … - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 6, pp. 1008-1022

This paper employs a unique Italian data source to take a comprehensive approach to labour market pooling. It jointly considers many different aspects of the agglomeration — labour market relationship, including turnover, learning, matching, and hold up. It also considers labour market pooling...

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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012

The unprecedented economic rise of Eastern Europe and China in the last two decades has triggered concerns in developed Western market economies about adverse effects for domestic labor markets trough increased import competition. Simultaneously, exports from developed countries to these new...

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Guest Editorial

Panagiotidis, Theodore; Pelloni, Gianluigi - In: Review of Economic Analysis 3 (2011) 1, pp. 1-2

A short presentation and description of the papers that have been selected from the second workshop of the Regional Studies Research Network on Geographical Localisation, Intersectoral Reallocation of Labour and Unemployment Differentials (GLUNLAB II)) that took place in Rimini, Italy, on May...

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The Dynamics of Local Employment in France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Magnac, Thierry; Robin, Jean-Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the impact of local economic structure on local sectoral employment growth. Local employment growth is decomposed into ‘internal’ growth (the growth of the size of existing plants) and ‘external’ growth (the creation of new plants). Using panel data methods, we...

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Defining Geographic Communities

Maré, David C.; Poland, Michelle - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide to concepts, ideas, and measurements of geographic communities. The … paper investigates the various concepts of geographic communities found in the literature and reviews existing studies to … determine how researchers measure geographic communities in practice. …

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Defining Geographic Communities

Poland, Michelle; Maré, David C - EconWPA - 2005

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The Challenge of Structural Change in APEC Economies

Buckle, Robert A; Cruickshank, Amy A - 2007

Improving New Zealand's economic performance is one of the key outcomes driving the work of the New Zealand Treasury and international connections are an important means of achieving that. The promotion of sustainable economic growth and improved living standards in the Asia-Pacific region...

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