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- Stolarick, Kevin, et al.
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Are creative metropolitan areas also entrepreneurial?
- 2011
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1757-7802. ; 3:3, s. 271-286
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent scholarship on metropolitan and regional development has highlighted the importance of two factors: entrepreneurship and skilled individuals. Using micro-level establishment data on the creation of new firms, and an occupational measure of skilled individuals (the creative class), we examine whether a metropolitan environment conducive to creative employment is also conducive to entrepreneurship (which can be seen as a creative act). Taking past growth into consideration, and allowing for annual fixed effects to account for economic cycles as well as controlling for systematic location-specific characteristics, we find that the larger the creative employment of a region, the higher the levels of entrepreneurship and regional growth. A region that has more new entrepreneurial firms open in the previous year is more likely to have higher growth in new entrepreneurial firms in the current year.
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- Westlund, Hans
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Multidimensional Entrepreneurship : Theoretical Considerations and Swedish Empirics
- 2011
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1757-7802. ; 3:3, s. 199-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Entrepreneurship is often defined as merely the starting-up of new firms. There are obvious advantages in using this simplified definition, not least regarding measurement, but with such a definition there is also a great risk in missing important aspects of entrepreneurship and how it emerges and develops. Therefore, this paper takes its starting point in a broader definition according to which entrepreneurship is a chain of activities, including discovery of opportunities, evaluation of them and gathering resources in order to exploit these opportunities. Based on this definition, this paper examines entrepreneurship in six different spheres of society: economic; social; civil; political; academic; and innovative entrepreneurship. It can be assumed that the six forms of entrepreneurship mutually have impacts on each other, but that the directions of these impacts can vary. This paper makes a first investigation of the six dimensions of entrepreneurship in Sweden and the connections between them and measures of growth at the local government level and in various spatial areas. Economic entrepreneurship, measured in the form of start-ups, is having the strongest connections to growth of population and employment in all types of local government areas. Political entrepreneurship seems completely unimportant for growth of metropolitan and high-growth areas, but strongly correlated to growth in rural and low and medium growth areas.
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- Adjei, Evans Korang, et al.
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The effects of a large industrial investment on employment in a remote and sparsely populated area using a synthetic control approach
- 2023
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1757-7802. ; 15:7, s. 1553-1576
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the impact of establishing a large industrial manufacturing entity on employment and the labor market in a remote, sparsely populated part of Sweden, focusing on how it affects total regional employment because industrial policies aiming to attract investment and reignite employment in stagnating regions have been a central policy tool. The empirical analysis is based on the synthetic control method, which enables the estimation of place-specific causal effects. Using aggregated microdata from 1995 to 2019, the results indicate that employment in the treated region, as compared to synthetic regions, has been negatively affected by the manufacturing establishment. However, the short- and long-term effects differ across different labor market segments (same, related, and unrelated industries) and according to firm size. Overall, the findings suggest that large manufacturing investment does not necessarily have a positive or instantaneous impact on total regional employment. It does, however, provide some potential for long-term diversification because employment in related activities grows in the long run.
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- Alm Fjellborg, Andreas, PhD, 1982-, et al.
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Commuting patterns of preschool children in metropolitan Stockholm
- 2022
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1757-7802. ; 14:4, s. 960-980
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This full population study of travel-to-preschool patterns ofthe youngest children (< 6 years old) in metropolitanStockholm analyses how school markets, even at an earlystage, reproduce inequalities related to social and geograph-ical distances. Our findings show that families with foreignbackgrounds tend to convert educational capital into socialcapital by sending their children to preschools in moresocio-economically favourable neighbourhoods. Further-more, we detect avoidance behaviour among the majoritypopulation in ethnically mixed neighbourhoods, whichindicate that some native families are inclined to avoidpreschools with high shares of non-native peers.
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- Andersson, Martin, et al.
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Urban preferences, amenities and age : Exploring the spatial distribution of age in Stockholm from 1991 to 2011
- 2018
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1757-7802. ; 10:4, s. 367-381
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities exhibit a rich and complex heterogeneity in people and activities. This poses a sizable challenge for planners when planning new neighbourhoods or the reconstruction of old ones as well as when considering the allocation of supply of and demand for amenities, e.g. kindergartens or health facilities. However, individual preferences may also exhibit common denominators that may provide structure to this heterogeneity. One such denominator is age. In this paper we introduce the concept of neighbourhood age, defined as the mean age of people living in exogenously defined squares of 1km2 in a city. We use highly disaggregated geocoded data to map how the spatial distribution of neighbourhood age changes over a 20-year period from 1991 to 2011 in the city of Stockholm, Sweden. We then test the correlation between neighbourhood age and two categories of urban amenities: supply of local consumption amenities and distance to the city's central business district (CBD). The paper presents three main findings: First, neighbourhood age changes and polarizes significantly over the observed period, suggesting that different age groups are concentrating in different parts of the city. Second, there is a rejuvenation in the central parts of the city but also in more distant clusters of amenities. Third, over a long-term perspective, the results suggest that local clusters of consumption amenities outside the inner city may become increasingly attractive to younger people. Our conclusion is that neighbourhood age and age-related patterns over time provides a tool for planners to better understand the spatial distribution of age-related demand.
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- Eimermann, Marco, et al.
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International tourism entrepreneurs in Swedish peripheries : compliance and collision with public tourism strategies
- 2019
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1757-7802. ; 11:3, s. 479-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the entrepreneurial strategies and development aspirations of immigrant tourism entrepreneurs in rural Sweden, and how they support or conflict with local and regional public sector tourism strategies. Our conceptual framework contrasts the immigrant entrepreneurs' business and lifestyle priorities with public sector responsibilities and development interests. Findings from three case studies suggest that immigrants both collaborate and compete with public sector stakeholders in different tourism destination systems. We identify mismatches in terms of economic, lifestyle and public interest goals, as well as institutional and cultural differences between immigrant entrepreneurs and public sector stakeholders that hinder effective public‐private collaboration.
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- Elbakidze, Marine
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Depopulation and ecological degradation, two dimensions of marginalization, and peripheralization. Ecosystem integrity as an assessment factor in local revitalization
- 2023
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy and Practice. - 1757-7802. ; 15, s. 1625-1646
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Addressing the pressure that population growth puts on the environment has become a high-level policy priority. Less discussed is the role of population decline in either enhancing or degrading the natural environment, and how the its reshaping can help new forms of de-peripheralization and de-marginalization. A long-term trajectory of marginalization and peripheralization of depopulating places can be reversed in certain situations by adopting a more holistic and sustainable analytical and policy framing. To do this, here we integrate different types of diagnosis frameworks. The first, based on factors that the literature indicates as factors leading to negative effects of depopulation, for which the revitalization of such places is suggested, and the second, proposed in this paper, which adds the integrity of the ecosystems involved in places undergoing depopulation processes. Our findings suggest that as we add ecosystem integrity factor to observations, in some cases, revitalization is possible even in the localities displaying the potentially negative effects of depopulation decrease. This suggests that whereas in some places a policy-managed abandonment may be appropriate to release human pressures over such degraded ecosystems, in other cases, revitalization may be a viable alternative for such settlements.
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- Falck, Simon
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Spillovers from FDI through Labour Mobility : An Empirical note from Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Regional Science Policy & Practice. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1757-7802. ; 8:3, s. 111-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates labour mobility flows between foreign firms and domestic employers in Sweden, which is done from the perspective that inter-firm mobility is a potential source of spillovers from FDI. After reviewing related literature, the study identifies potential knowledge spillover agents and examines the spatial extent of labour mobility patterns within and between 72 functional local labour market regions, including the effect of distance. Empirical results are provided on the frequency and relative importance of spillover agents across Sweden. Although the study neither provides any final answer for the underlying reasons for these flows nor their effect on domestic firms or local economies, which are questions left for future studies, it argues that the spatial dimension may have important implications for spillover effects to arise.
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