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Evaluation of the structure of the services sector in Brazil : a regional approach

Cardoso, Verônica Lazarini; Perobelli, Fernando Salgueiro - 2014

The accelerated growth of the service sector is one of the characteristics of the actual pattern of global growth. In Brazil, it is possible to point to a move towards a 'service economy' following the global standard. However, it cannot say that Brazil is regionally services intensive, ie, the...

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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999

Dem Neugründungsgeschehen in Dienstleistungsbranchen wird oft zugeschrieben, dass es einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Strukturwandel zu einer wissensorientierten Wirtschaft leistet. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die regionstypenspezifischen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten im...

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Modeling services sectors' agglomeration within a new economic geography model

Krenz, Astrid - 2012

This study investigates whether services sectors’ agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography model by Krugman and Venables (1996). Special feature of this modeling is to account for the lower importance of intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact...

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Services sectors' concentration : the European Union, Greece, and the New Economic Geography

Krenz, Astrid - 2013

The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors' concentration in the European Union based on employment data and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport sectors...

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Regional public research, higher education, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2013

Based on detailed information about the regional knowledge base, particularly about universities, we find that regional public research and education have a strong positive impact on new business formation in innovative industries but not in industries classified as non-innovative. Measures for...

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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation

Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education institutions in the emergence of innovative start-ups in a region. We show that education and research in the applied and natural sciences have the strongest effect on the emergence of...

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Spatial concentration of Indian service industries in rural and urban areas : a micro-unit-level analysis

Agarwal, Sugam; Ranjan Behera, Smruti - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

examine knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industries' spatial concentration patterns and geographical concentration … concentration effect varies in rural and urban areas. Further, empirical results reveal that KIBS industries are localized in rural … suggest that urban planners and district municipal authorities can give more emphasis and implement suitable KIBS industry …

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The Spatial Distribution of Urban Consumer Service Firms : Evidence from Yelp Reviews

Humphreys, Brad R. - 2018

A growing literature employs distance-based measures of localization to assess the spatial distribution of firms with a focus on manufacturing across a country. We analyze the spatial concentration of a variety of consumer services firms in the Phoenix, AZ area using geo-referenced Yelp data...

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

Kemeny, Tom - 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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What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data

Liang, Zheng - 2017

Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008...

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