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The gap between potential entrepreneurship and actual entrepreneurship : an inter-continental comparative analysis

Marzábal Rodil, Óscar; Morales Urrutia, Diana - 2015

The aim of this paper is to analyze the difference between the rates of potential entrepreneurship and actual entrepreneurship in European and American context, trying to identify some of the explanatory factors. For this purpose an institutional approach is used, which includes the role of...

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European structural funds during the crisis : evidence from Southern Italy

Ciani, Emanuele; De Blasio, Guido - 2015 - This version: February 6, 2015

We investigate the effectiveness of European Structural Funds on employment, population and house prices in Local Labor Markets (LLM) located in Southern Italy. We exploit the variability in disbursements between 2007 and 2013 and estimate the impact of the interventions by allowing for...

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Urban-rural differences in level of various forms of trust in Hungary : paper presented to the 55th Congress of the European Regional Science Association : Lisbon, Portugal, 25-28...

Dusek, Tamás; Pálmai, Eva - 2015

This study examines the association between urban/rural residence and various forms of trust in Hungary, including control variables such as age, gender, income, marriage, qualification into the analysis. Trust is a basic dimension of human capital and a very often used concept in everyday...

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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Südekum, Jens - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

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Do more trucks lead to more motor vehicle fatalities in European roads? : evaluating the impact of specific safety strategies

Castillo-Manzano, José I.; Castro-Nuño, Mercedes; … - 2015

Truck operations have recently become an important focus of academic research not only because road freight transport is a key part of logistics, but because trucks are usually associated with negative externalities including pollution, congestion and traffic accidents. While the negative...

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The challenge of SGI provision in rural areas : a paper prepared for the 55th European Congress of Regional Science International, 25-29 August 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal

Rauhut, Daniel; Komornicki, Tomasz - 2015 - Draft 16 July 2015

arguments are usually given for this: (1) One of the EU's key political goals is territorial cohesion, which aims at improving … Services of General Interest (SSGI) at a regional level in the EU (Humer & Palma 2013, Humer 2014). The knowledge gap when it …

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Regional dynamics of economic performance in the EU : to what extent spatial spillovers matter?

Özyurt, Selin; Dées, Stéphane - 2015

This paper investigates the main determinants of economic growth in the European Union from a regional perspective. The analysis is based on a recently available dataset from the European Cluster Observatory covering 253 European regions over the period 2002-2008. In addition to the traditional...

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Perceptions of participants and residents of the impacts of the Braga 2012 European Youth Capital

Remoaldo, Paula; Duque, Eduardo; Ribeiro, José C. - 2015

The European Youth Capital is an annual title awarded to a European city by the European Youth Forum, aiming to strength the relationship between the municipalities and the European Union institutions, with a particular focus on youth participation. Until now, little is known about the impacts...

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The long-term impact of Objective 1 funding on unemployment and labour market disparities : evidence from the UK

Di Cataldo, Marco - 2015

to determine the effectiveness of EU funds in improving economic and labour market conditions in Objective 1 regions, the … of the poorest regions in the EU. In addition, a lot of attention has been devoted to determine the effect of Cohesion … intervention period. We put forth some hypotheses to explain Cornwall's successful management of EU funds. …

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The importance of special safeguard tariffs (SSG) for Brazilian sugar exports : working paper submitted to the 2015 ERSA Congress

Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Burnquist, Heloisa Lee; … - 2015

countries such as the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) bloc. A first stage involved the identification of tariff … lines (TL) for the EU and the US sugar imports from Brazil during the period of 1995 to 2013. Next, WTO notifications about … raw sugar in EU and 30% for white sugar in US in years 1999 and 2002, which the additional tariffs were highest. In period …

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