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Creative professionals and high-skilled agents' : polarization of employment growth? : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain

Wedemeier, Jan - 2011

The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that the clustering of human capital might result in the polarization of economic development. Since the creative sector's de nition is motivated from the insights of the economics...

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Regional branch composition, firm size, job growth and job reallocation

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2012

A growing body of evidence suggests that reallocation of jobs within and across firms and regions and from low to high-educated labour are essential in driving regional economic growth. Each year, many businesses expand and many others contract. New businesses constantly enter, while others...

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Interregional spillovers and urban-rural disparity in U.S. employment growth

Saito, Hisamitsu; Gopinath, Munisamy; Wu, JunJie - 2010

A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth averaged 2.1 percent in urban counties during 1998-2007, compared with just 1 percent in rural counties. In this study, we examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the...

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The influence of education on rural population employment : regional disparities

Dinculescu, Corina-Georgeta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 279-286). 2016

A higher level and continuous education throughout entire life (necessary for adapting to the changes in the labor market) and a better health offer greater chances of sustained economic and social development. Also, a higher education level contributes to decrease the disparities between...

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It's a woman's world? : occupational structure and the rise of female employment in Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Stepanyan, Gayane - 2020

We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by technological progress increasing the demand for non-routine social and cognitive skills, traditionally attributed to women. We do so by examining which task groups and...

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Are more severe recessions followed by stronger recoveries? : evidence from the Mexican states employment

Mejía Reyes, Pablo; Vergara-González, Reyna - 2015

On the basis of the suggestions of Friedman (1969, 1993) and Moore (1965) and considering the framework proposed by Balke and Wynne (1994, 1995), this paper evaluates whether recoveries growth depends on the characteristics of prior recessions (depth, steepness and duration) in the case of the...

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The importance of spatial autocorrelation for regional employment growth in Germany

Zierahn, Ulrich - 2010

The regional employment growth in Germany is characterized by huge disparities. Whereas institutional factors might explain the disparities of employment growth between nations, they can only account for a minor fraction of the regional employment growth. Instead the sectoral structure of...

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What accounts for the German labor market miracle? : a macroeconomic investigation

Klein, Mathias; Schiman, Stefan - 2019 - This version: February 28, 2019

unemployment over the last two decades that persisted beyond the Great Recession. Our structural VAR approach encompasses various … for most of the observed unemployment decline. Wage moderation was most pronounced right after the implementation of Hartz ….e. within the monetary union. In contrast, the muted response of unemployment to the Great Recession was not significantly …

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Analysis of employment by gender in selected countries of the European Union

Kulaš Mirosavljević, Anita - 2020

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Is the German experience applicable to France?

Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - In: Economie & prévision : EP 211/212 (2017) 2/3, pp. 139-161

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