The paper accounts for the determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across the EU-27 regions. Together with the traditional variables considered in the literature (market size, market quality, agglomeration economies, labour cost, technology, human capital), we focus...

The paper accounts for the determinants of inward foreign direct investment in business services across the EU-27 regions. Together with the traditional variables considered in the literature (market size, market quality, agglomeration economies, labour cost, technology, human capital), we focus...

This paper analyses the recent employment growth in the services sector, along the Northern Mexican border. The hypothesis presented, assumes that the division of the services sector into it´s two main components: producer services and consumer services contributes to the understanding of the...

The analysis of regional differences in a share of service sector in employment was conducted in the study. The aim of research was to identify the most im-portant intra-sectoral determinants of labour engagement in the service sector at a level of voivodeships. Statistical methods such as...

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...

In questo studio vengono confrontate le dinamiche recenti di tre economie regionali: Piemonte, Veneto e Puglia. In passato queste regioni hanno rappresentato situazioni emblematiche di tre modelli di sviluppo diversi: il Piemonte nella parte industrialmente più evoluta del Paese (la "prima"...

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...

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

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...