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Rietveld, Piet; Bruinsma, Frank; van Vuuren, Daniël - 1999

Substantial differences exist among fuel taxes in various countries. Thesedifferences represent a form of fiscal competition that has undesirable side effects because it leads to cross-borderfuelling and hence to extra kilometres driven.One possible way of solving the problem of low fuel taxes...

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Effects of Ethnic Geographical Clustering on Educational Attainment in the Netherlands

de Graaff, Thomas; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001

Contemporary migration studies witness an increasing interest in the socio-economicrole of networks of migrants. Such … purelyeconomic factors like unemployment and wage levels in importance. The empiricalmeasurement and analysis of migrants' networks … developed by Ellisonand Glaeser (the gamma coefficient), with a view to the measurement of spatial clusteringof migrants in the …

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Geographical Distribution of Unemployment: An Analysis of Provincial Differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment disparities of Italian provinces. On the basis of findings...

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What explains the Rural-Urban Gap in Infant Mortality — Household or Community Characteristics?

van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van - 2007

The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification of the ontribution of unobserved heterogeneity at the household and the community level. Using Demographic and Health Survey data for six Francophone countries in Western...

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Regional Clusters of Innovative Activity in Europe: Are Social Capital and Geographical Proximity the Key Determinants?

de Dominicis, Laura; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, … - 2011

Finding proper policy instruments to promote productivity growth features prominently on the Lisbon agenda and is central in many national as well as European policy debates. In view of the increased mobility of high-skilled workers in Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional...

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Multilevel Approaches and the Firm-Agglomeration Ambiguity in Economic Growth Studies

van Oort, Frank G.; Burger, Martijn J.; Knoben, Joris; … - 2012

Empirical studies in spatial economics have shown that agglomeration economies may be a source of the uneven distribution of economic activities and economic growth across cities and regions. Both localization and urbanization economies are hypothesized to foster agglomeration and growth, but...

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Espacio y desarrollo municipal en Bolivia

Nina, Osvaldo; Evia, Tania - 2011

This paper seeks to establish the factors related to the Human Development Index, incorporating the spatial dimension in the analysis of its determinants. The variables were classified into four groups: geographic, socio-economic, demographic and infrastructure and services. The results show...

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Does spatial disaggregation matter in job creation and destruction flows?

Cefis, Elena; Gabriele, Roberto - 2005

The paper investigates the changes in job creation and destruction flows considering a very disaggregate level of analysis. If institutional setup plays a more important role compared to other factors, than at lower levels of aggregation we should observe that job flows regularities are in line...

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Regionale Verteilung von Innovations- und Technologiepotentialen in Deutschland und Europa: Endbericht an das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. Referat Z 25 - Kurzfassun...

Koschatzky, Knut; Muller, Emmanuel; Zenker, Andrea; … - 2000

In den letzten Jahren wurden Regionen, verstanden als räumliche Einheiten unterschiedlicher Größen innerhalb eines Landes, durch das Aufgreifen regionaler Entwicklungskonzepte, die Thematisierung von Innovationsnetzwerken sowie durch die Popularisierung des Cluster-Ansatzes zunehmend...

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Reallocation of Purchasing Power due to Demographic Change - The Case of North Rhine-Westphalia

Stöver, Britta - 2012

The ageing process of populations due to demographic change affects the economy in various ways. The study at hand focuses on the reallocation of income and changes in consumption expenses caused by demographic change. Local disparities on NUTS 3 level are of special interest as the demographic...

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