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Adult mortality in Russian rural areas : inter-regional comparisons

Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana - 2011

Regions of the Russian Federation draw up purpose-oriented programs aiming at improving the health and reducing the mortality among the population. The task of decreasing the mortality among the rural population, especially overcoming the phenomenon of "excess mor-tality" among the people of the...

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Rural mortality from external causes in Russian regions

Blinova, Tatiana; Bylina, Svetlana; Rusanovskiy, Victor - 2014

external causes of death (road traffic accidents of all kinds, accidental alcohol poisoning, murder and suicide). The paper …

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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in … Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition … methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to investigate whether the increase in wage inequality can be explained …

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Long-lasting labour market consequences of German unification

Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; Phan thi Hong Van; … - 2015 - (Final version: Sept. 14, 2015)

This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold...

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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity

Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...

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The knowledge regions in the enlarged Europe

Colombelli, Alessandra; Foddi, Marta; Paci, Raffaele - 2011

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world relying specifically on the increase and strengthen of its human capital and technological endowments. However, given the presence of localized externalities in the knowledge...

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Regional development and creativity

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2012

The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by creativity and other components of human capital on the process of economic growth for 257 regions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. We first decompose the regional human capital endowment to distinguish between the...

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The glass ceiling revisited : empirical evidence from the German academic career ladder

Heinrichs, Katrin; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the intention to become a professor. We find that gender...

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Diversity of human capital and regional growth

Noseleit, Florian; Söllner, Rene - 2010

evidence that regions with higher degrees of human capital diversity exhibit higher GDP-per-capita and employment growth, as … the regional industry diversity equivalent to the occupational diversity using regional industry employment shares at the … three digit industry level. Second we incorporate regional employment shares of 27 out of 28 aggregated industries as …

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Social mobility : is there an advantage in being English in Scotland? : Paper for the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International "Sustaina...

Ham, Maarten van; Findlay, Allan M.; Manley, David; … - 2010

A number of powerful forces have produced uneven opportunities for occupational advancement in Scotland. Edinburgh as capital of a devolved nation, hub for financial service activities and regional head office location for many public sector bodies boasts many of the characteristics that one...

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