Innovative capacity of firms has traditionally been explained through intra-firm characteristics, being firms size the most important. A wave of empirical studies identifies small firms as the engines of technological change and innovative activity, at least in certain industries. This statement...

In this paper we employ dichotomous, multinomial and conditional logit models in order to analyse the employment-migration behaviour of some 300,000 UK university graduates. By controlling for a range of variables related to human-capital acquisition and local economic conditions, we are able to...

This paper focuses on theory and methodology in estimating Keynesian regional multipliers. After introducing the concept of Keynesian multipliers at both national and regional level and describe the database used, two methodologies are compared and applied to the case of the Italian regions: the...

The main purpose of this Handbook is to provide overviews and assessments of the state-of-the-art regarding research methods, approaches and applications central to economic geography. The chapters are written by distinguished researchers from a variety of scholarly traditions and with a...

This paper reports on a model of the sequential migration behaviour of some 76 000 Scottish and Welsh students, from their domicile location to the location of their higher education and on to their employment location. A logit model methodology is employed to analyse the choice of the location...

<title>Abstract</title> Current mainstream wisdom portrays the young British-Bangladeshi community as underachieving in education. However, this study suggests that young British-Bangladeshi women tend to be high achievers in education. This research interrogates the multifaceted experiences of...

M<sc>ameli</sc> F., F<sc>aggian</sc> A. and M<sc>c</sc>C<sc>ann</sc> P. Estimation of local employment growth: do sectoral aggregation and industry definition matter?, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Over the last two decades, numerous attempts have been made to explain the determinants of local growth, with as yet little overall consensus. The...

F<sc>aggian</sc> A., C<sc>omunian</sc> R., J<sc>ewell</sc> S. and K<sc>elly</sc> U. Bohemian graduates in the UK: disciplines and location determinants of creative careers, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The human capital and regional economic development literature has become increasingly interested in the role of the ‘Bohemian...