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Evaluating micro- and macro-effects of regional development policies : the case of the Northeast Regional Fund (FNE) in Brazil, 2000-2006 : 50th European Congress of the Regional S...
Resende, Guilherme Mendes - 2010
this aim, the paper assembles two types of outcome evaluation often implemented separately in the evaluation literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575516
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Regional analysis of the education system in Romania
Grigorescu, Adriana - 2011
Education represents one of the fundamentals of the social and economic environment in each and every society, even more in the current stage of development that involves higher educational levels for proper access to technologies. Depending on the specific level of education and training,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540119
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Short run dynamics of income disparities and regional cycle synchronization : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association, 30 August - 3 September 2011, Barcelona
Duran, Hasan Engin - 2011
Since the 1990s, the issue of regional income convergence and its long term tendencies has been thoroughly and heatedly discussed. Much less attention, however, has been devoted to the short-run dynamics of regional convergence. In particular, three important aspects have not yet been adequately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539464
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Human capital, R&D and productivity convergence of European regions : a spatial analysis of RHOMOLO's semi endogenous growth approach.
Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2011 - Very preliminary
The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European regions. Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the cause of differences in the speed by which follower regions converge and catch-up with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540882
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Regional dynamics of private pension funds in Romania : 51th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, 30th August - 3rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Constantinescu, Dan - 2011
The number of participants in the private pension funds, as well as the volume of their contribution, differs significant in each development region. It goes without saying that the territorial distribution of the indicators related to pension funds are influenced, on the one hand, by the offer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541354
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What about regions in regional science? : an exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy
Resende, Guilherme Mendes; Cravo, Túlio - 2013
in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs … within countries at finer scales (NUTS3 level) rather than between EU countries. Furthermore, these findings hold when we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543405
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Measuring regional inequalities in Greek tourism development : ersa : regional integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the world economy : 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013,...
Gaki, Eleni; Lagos, Dimitris G.; Kostopoulou, Stella - 2013
In recent times, the attention given to the importance of tourism as a particularly efficient way to promote regional development has significantly increased, owing to the capacity of tourism to create income and employment and to generate synergies within other economic sectors. Tourism is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543861
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Exploring spatial contagion in Spain's international migration distribution : 51st European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, Barcelona, 30th August - 3rd...
Hierro, María - 2011
This paper explores the Spain's international migration distribution (SIMD) for the 1998-2009 period. Beyond a general depiction of the distribution, the study pays special attention to the role played by space and, particularly, to the possibility of geographical contagion effects. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548152
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Regional convergence and economic development in the EU : the relation between national growth and regional disparities within the old and the new member states
Kramar, Hans - 2015
While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU …, the gap between rich and poor regions widened in most countries which accessed the EU since 2004. This trend, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011481693
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Urban-rural differences in level of various forms of trust in Hungary : paper presented to the 55th Congress of the European Regional Science Association : Lisbon, Portugal, 25-28...
Dusek, Tamás; Pálmai, Eva - 2015
This study examines the association between urban/rural residence and various forms of trust in Hungary, including control variables such as age, gender, income, marriage, qualification into the analysis. Trust is a basic dimension of human capital and a very often used concept in everyday...
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