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Is there a rural-urban divide? Location and productivity of UK manufacturing

Rizov, Marian ; Walsh, Patrick P. (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-08)

We compute the productivity gaps in manufacturing industries by urban, rural less sparse and rural sparse locations in the UK. This is done by using firm-specific total factor productivities, which are estimated by a ...
Who favors enlargement? : determinants of support for EU membership in the candidate countries' referenda

Doyle, Orla ; Fidrmuc, Jan (Elsevier Science, 2006)

This paper investigates macro and micro determinants of support for EU membership in the new member and candidate countries of the EU. We find that favorable individual and regional characteristics are positively correlated ...