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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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Regional Determinants of Establishments' Innovation Activities : A Multi-Level Approach

Bellmann, Lutz - 2014

This paper analyses the determinants of different innovation types. Beside a wide range of firm characteristics also … rate and the share of MINT-graduates. The unemployment rate has also for some of the innovation combos a significant effect …. The proportion of MINT-graduates is relevant for the probability of all 4 innovation types simultaneously …

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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Gonçalves, Octávio M. D. de Figueiredo - 2011

In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimation and analysis of models with...

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What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data

Liang, Zheng - 2017

Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …

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The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors

Moretti, Enrico - 2019

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College Openings and Local Economic Development

Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022

We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...

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Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Madaleno, Margarida - 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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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution : A Cge Analysis of Three EU Regions

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009

The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...

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Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain

Ramos, Raul - 2009

This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying spatial panel data techniques. The empirical...

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