Andrea Bonaccorsi Dipartimento di Sistemi Elettrici ed Automazione, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Pisa Via Diotisalvi 2 – 56126 Pisa E-mail: [email protected] Lucia Piscitello Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 – 20133 Milano E-mail: [email protected] Cristina Rossi Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna P.za Martiri per la Libertà 33 ...

APrIl 2017 IZA DP No. 10697 The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading In the last few decades, urban restructuring programs have been implemented in many Western European cities with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighborhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been ho...

We construct a general equilibrium model of urban unemployment with a continuum of heterogeneous urban firms producing differentiated products in a monopolistic competitive market. We show that an increase in urban institutionally fixed minimum wage reduces urban aggregate output and each urban firm will experience an output cut proportional to the change in aggregate output. However, such prop...

Talent finding in sports can not only lead to winning teams but also ensure individuals continue to participate, improve their talents, and take preventive measures against injuries. Athletic talent often develops as the result of morphological, physiological, or psychological characteristics. Many of these characteristics are inherited, and genetics have important implications for talent. Tale...

This paper investigates the main features and the significance of the SME sector development for approaching the regional question in Romania, with a particular emphasis on the quantitative, qualitative and sectoral aspects of the territorial distribution of SMEs and their role in territorial development and competition. The main conclusion is that the Romanian SME sector can represent an impor...

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function. This function relates private sector research and development (R&D) activity in a region to the number of inventions that have been registered by residents of that region. Different measures and estimation approaches lead to rather similar assessments. We find that both spillove...

This paper describes the industrial development of Europe to 1600. The conventional history of industrial development sees technological progress as its primary cause. However, this paper argues that the source of rising productivity was not new technology but the reorganization of production in response to falling trading costs and the expansion of trade. The expansion of trade changed which g...

Significant economic disparities among China’s Eastern, Central, and Western regions pose unequivocal challenges to social equality and political stability in the country. A major impediment to economic development, especially in the poor, remote Western region, is the shortage of transportation infrastructure. The Chinese government has committed to substantial investment for improving the acc...

How does isolation affect the economic activity of cities? Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of intercity transport costs in determining the income of sub-Saharan African cities. In particular, focusing on fifteen countries whose largest city is a po...