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Italy's national recovery and resilient plan : will it narrow the North-South productivity gap?

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2023 - Prima edizione

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Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Madaleno, Margarida; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry; … - 2018

A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...

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Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Nathan, Max - 2019

Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and identify effects using difference-in-differences and synthetic controls on rich microdata. I...

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Portuguese national accounts : a network approach

Faustino, Rui - 2016

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The role of clusters in the performance of the Mexican economy

Juarez-Torres, Miriam; Puigvert-Angulo, Jonathan; … - 2022

regions. It identifies 24 clusters and analyzes their geographical distribution, their role in regional growth, the evolution …-oriented clusters have a strong presence in the Northern states of the country, while services-oriented clusters in the Central ones …. Finally, clusters such as plastic products manufacturing; retail and eating services; food and beverage manufacturing; and …

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005

Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...

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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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Polarisation and health

Blanco Pérez, Cristina; Ramos, Xavier - 2008

This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health, and which have been traditionally proxied by...

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