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The Speeds of Europe - An Analysis of Regional Disparities Across the EU

Fulterer, Ruth; Lungu, Ioana - In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (2018) 2, pp. 169-190

This paper aims to shed light on the evolution of regional disparities with respect to economic activity, productivity and employment across the European Union. While the "multiple Speeds of Europe" are a buzzword often quoted to underpin different political strategies and visions, they are...

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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the US and UK Using Microdata

Kemeny, Tom; Nathan, Max; O'Brien, Dave - 2018

Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...

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The effect of foreign-owned large plant closures on nearby firms

Bisztray, Márta - 2016

I estimate the impact of foreign-owned large plant closures on local firms. I identify 41 such events in Hungary and assign comparable control cities with foreign-owned large plants operating in the same industry and not closing. I use a firm-level panel database of Hungarian firms between 1992...

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European integration and the case for compensatory regional policy

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2002

regional income. Such a supposition evokes questions on the need of an accompanying compensatory regional policy and its … adequate design. I find that a case for regional policy cannot be denied, but that the EU largely overstates the need for such … a policy at EU level, and should abstain from direct structural interventions into regional economies. …

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Vergleich von deutschen Arbeitsmarktregionen

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Schwengler, Barbara; Türck, Matthias - 2007

There are two delineations of German labour market regions. On the one hand the 'Gemeinschaftsaufgabe Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur' uses labour market regions for business development programs. Their demarcation is based on 270 functional areas after a modification for the...

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Abgrenzung von Wirtschaftsräumen auf der Grundlage von Pendlerverflechtungen: Ein Methodenvergleich

Kropp, Per; Schwengler, Barbara - 2008

Funktionale Regionen, sogenannte regionale Arbeitsmärkte, spielen in der nationalen und internationalen Regionalforschung eine besondere Rolle. Im Gegensatz zu administrativen Regionen ermöglichen sie es, wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten und Pendlerverflechtungen in geeigneter Weise abzubilden....

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Political Institutionalisation and Economic Specialisation in Polycentric Metropolitan Regions – The Case of the East-German ‘Saxony Triangle’

Franz, Peter; Hornych, Christoph - 2009

cooperation between the actors in the region. Policy implications and conclusions for future research are discussed. …

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The Identification of Industrial Clusters – Methodical Aspects in a Multidimensional Framework for Cluster Identification

Titze, Mirko; Brachert, Matthias; Kubis, Alexander - 2010

We use a combination of measures of spatial concentration, qualitative input-output analysis and innovation interaction matrices to identify the horizontal and vertical dimension of industrial clusters in Saxony in 2005. We describe the spatial allocation of the industrial clusters and show...

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The train has left the stadion: real estate price effects of mainline realignment in Berlin

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2008

While there is an increasing body of literature testing for a correlation between access to regional markets and economic activity, little evidence is available for market access being of causal importance for economic development. This paper investigates the impact of exogenous variation to...

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The role of industrial sector in the Brazilian territorial reconfiguration: New expressions for XXI century national dilemmas

Monteiro Neto, Aristides; Silva, Raphael de Oliveira; … - 2022

In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...

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