Regional Age Structure, Human Capital and Innovation – Is Demographic Ageing Increasing Regional Disparities?

بررسی ارتباط بین ساختار فضایی و نابرابری‌های منطقه‌ای در استان‌های کشور

Introduction Assumptions about relationship between spatial structure and regional disparities reduction once has attracted the attention of policy makers and scholars alongside with the introduction of polycentric development policies in Europe and national level during the recent decades. Accordingly the present article attempted by examining the economic and experimental test of such assu...

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran

Age , Human Capital and the Geography of Innovation ∗

An aging labor force is often associated with a decreasing innovative performance on aggregate, firm or individual level. Using a regional knowledge production function to explain patenting activity in German districts, we propose to include the effect of age in a twofold specification: First, we account indirectly for age by including the aggregate, age-heterogeneous human capital available in...

تحلیل تأثیر تجمیع فعالیت‌های صنعتی بر رشد منطقه‌ای اقتصاد در ایران

  This research aims to analyze the effects of industrial agglomeration on regional economic growth in the Iranian provinces. For this aim, this study is divided into theoretical and applied sectors.   In the theoretical point of view, the research has proposed a simple theoretical framework to study the impacts of industrial agglomeration on regional economic growth. In applied sector, we have...

Ageing dynamics of a human-capital-specific population: A demographic perspective

BACKGROUND Research on how rising human capital affects the consequences of population ageing rarely considers the fact that the human capital of the elderly population is composed in a specific way that is shaped by their earlier schooling and work experience. For an elderly population of a fixed size and age-sex composition, this entails that the higher its human capital, the greater the tota...