This paper evaluates the effect of the French enterprise zone program on residents of these deprived neighborhoods. A second contribution is the evaluation of the composition effects in the zones and of externalities on the neighbors of the enterprise zones. The third contribution is the...

Le analisi presentate nel Quaderno evidenziano che il Paese arriva all'appuntamento con il federalismo ereditando un divario geografico particolarmente pronunciato in termini di sviluppo economico. Alla vigilia delle riforma federalista, l'indice di dipendenza strutturale per area geografica...

La Région de Bruxelles-Capitale connait depuis plusieurs années une croissance très importante de sa population, qui sera amenée à encore augmenter fortement dans les années à venir. Cela implique des défis cruciaux pour la Région, en termes de logements, d’infrastructure, d’emplois...

There is indeed a strong opportunity for South Asian countries to benefit from intensifying regional ties. As a regional policy dialogue becomes stronger and barriers are gradually eliminated, or at least substantially reduced, economic integration will intensify in the next decade or two. This...

The role education plays in employment and social status’ has always garnered attention. The swelling unemployment of the educated has prevented Kerala from reaping the full social and economic benefits of its educational development. Unemployment is to be understood not merely as the denial...

The internet contains billions of documents, is there useful information in the number of websites about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the relative frequency of documents discussing...

This paper evaluates the effect of the French enterprise zone program on residents of these deprived neighborhoods. A second contribution is the evaluation of the composition effects in the zones and of externalities on the neighbors of the enterprise zones. The third contribution is the...

Every year there is a substantial turbulence in an economy with respect to new firm formation and business closures. Each year, according to Tillväxtanalys (2009), about 100 000 Swedish employees lose their job due to a business closure. However, the share of firm closures vary substantially...