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Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural …
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Between 2003 and 2005, the German government passed an unprecedented package of labor market reforms, commonly known as the Hartz-reforms. This led to a "labor market miracle" with sharply declining unemployment rates. This paper examines these reforms at the regional level and provides a...
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The research in the topic of industrial districts has been focused on the identification of which industries are forming industrial districts and on the causes behind the development of the clusters. As well as there are historical and efficiency reasons that are behind the current configuration...
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The financial crisis affected regions in Europe in a different magnitude. This is why we examine whether regions which …
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Do regional identities determine different levels of FDI-induced growth? This paper analyses the impact of FDI on the growth rates of European regions. In so doing, it discusses the role of different components of territorial capital in magnifying or daunting such an impact. The paper starts...
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The financial crisis affected regions in Europe in a different magnitude. This is why we examine whether regions which …
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and Eastern Europe, for which exploratory analysis was conducted on the effects of employment counts, number of companies … unemployment. The results for countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been to some extent less significant, due to …
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is dominated by the catching up process of regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), whereas convergence within …
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We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely heterogenous, highly discontinuous and strongly...
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The experiences of 259 regions in 21 European countries with within country GDP per capita and labour productivity growth suggest that variables associated with pro-active, growth oriented strategies are consistently more important predictors of successful regional development than variables...
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