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Regional Convergence Clubs in Europe : Identification and Conditioning Factors
Bartkowska, Monika - 2009
The aim of this paper is to empirically identify convergence clubs in per capita incomes of European regions and to investigate whether initial conditions - as suggested by the club convergence hypothesis - are responsible for club formation. To tackle this issue, we propose a two-step procedure...
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The EU Cohesion Policy in Context : Regional Growth and the Influence of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies
Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2014
This paper looks at the Cohesion Policy of the European Union (EU) and investigates how the EU agricultural and rural development policies shape its influence on regional growth. The analysis of the drivers of regional growth shows that the EU Regional Policy has a positive and significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039777
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Regional employment effects of the Hartz-reforms
Hörnig, Lukas - 2023
Between 2003 and 2005, the German government passed an unprecedented package of labor market reforms, commonly known as the Hartz-reforms. This led to a "labor market miracle" with sharply declining unemployment rates. This paper examines these reforms at the regional level and provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323533
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The determinants and dynamics of regional convergence in the EU
Arvanitopoulos, Theodoros; Lazarou, Nicholas-Joseph - 2023
, in causing economic growth convergence patterns. We find that western and northern parts of Europe have higher pairwise … stochastic convergence (and lower intra-country convergence) rates than regions in East and Southeast Europe. Focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014308640
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Territorial capital and the Great Recession : a Nuts-3 analysis for Central and Southern Italy : 52nd European Regional Science Congress , Bratislava (SK) August 21-25, 2012
Mazzola, Fabio; Di Giacomo, Giuseppe; Epifanio, Rosalia; … - 2012
Up to now, the analyses of the current "Great Recession" have been mainly confined to the national and international scale leaving aside the differential effects of the crisis upon regions and smaller areas. Although the current crisis has a strong international and global flavor, it must be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515014
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861818
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857750
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The Brazilian regional development funds and economic growth : a spatial panel approach
Cravo, Túlio A.; Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2015
The regional development policy in Brazil materializes mainly in the regional development funds for the north-east (FNE), the north (FNO), and the centre-west (FCO), in which more than EUR36 billion was invested between 2004 and 2010. This paper examines the economic effect of these regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392771
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157845
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Determinants of international tourist choices in Italian provinces : a joint demand-supply approach with spatial effects
Lorenzini, Eleonora; Pisati, Maurizio; Pompili, Tomaso - 2014
Research trying to explain tourism flows and expenditures for different destinations has so far adopted either a … tourism-demand or a tourism-supply approach. Whereas on the one hand the former ignores the product specificities … will disentangle the effects of both demand and supply variables on a province's tourism exports. Among the former ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491985