Browsing Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe Volume 17 (2014), No. 4 by Issue Date
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Health Inequalities Across The European Union Regions: A Beta-Convergence Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)This work is devoted to the study of the variations of health status (measured by life expectancy) across the EU regions of NUTS II level. We apply existing tools developed in economic growth literature to study a mortality ... -
Transport Accessibility In Light Of The DEA Method
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)The development of transport infrastructure and increasing the efficiency of transport services are major factors of economic growth. The concept of transport accessibility can be analysed in various aspects. This article ... -
Impact Of The Manufacturing Sector On The Export Competitiveness Of European Countries – A Spatial Panel Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)The purpose of this paper is to determine how changes in the export competitiveness of the EU economy (measured by exports and net exports) depend on changes in the competitiveness of processing industries, on the basis ... -
Regional Innovativeness Strategies And Their Impact On Innovativeness Of Provinces In Poland. A Spatio-temporal Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) have existed in Poland for almost ten years and in this period they have been developed, accepted and implemented in all provinces. The basic aim of Regional Innovativeness Strategies ... -
The Application Of Local Indicators For Categorical Data (LICD) In The Spatial Analysis Of Economic Development
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)Firstly, we identify classes of regions presenting different economic development levels using taxonomic methods of multivariate data analysis. Secondly, we apply a join-count test to examine spatial dependencies between ... -
The Determinants Of Population Health Spatial Disparities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)Health of the population is one of the basic factors of social development. The results of empirical studies indicate a number of factors determining the level of health of the population related to access to health care ... -
A Spatial Analysis Of The Knowledge - Based Economy In Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)The purpose of this article is to identify disparities in the use of knowledge in socio-economic life in the Polish provinces. The study was conducted using a taxonomic measure of development (one of the tools of ... -
Selected Intangible Factors Of Regional Development: An Analysis Of Spatial Relationships
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)The large diversification of human and social capital in the Polish subregions has been confirmed. Clusters of regions with low levels of human capital have been indicated, whereas in the case of social capital a grouping ... -
Spatial Analysis Of Human Capital Structures
(De Gruyter Open, 2014-12-30)An in-depth analysis of the occupational structure of the labour market in a spatial cross-section is an important theoretical and practical area of study necessary for the development of effective labour market policies ... -
An Empirical Study Of Productivity Growth In EU28 - Spatial Panel Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)This paper investigates the spatial process of productivity growth in the European Union on the foundations of the theory of New Economic Geography. The proposed model is based on the study of NUTS 2 regions and takes into ... -
Spatial Diversification Of The Regional Expenses On Culture In Poland 2003-2012
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)This paper focuses on the analysis of expenditure on culture covered by the provincial budgets, taking into consideration the structure of cultural institutions by their types in the years 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2012. To ... -
Spatial Analysis Of Foreign Migration In Poland In 2012 Using Geographically Weighted Regression
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)The aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial distribution of officially registered foreign migration in Poland in 2012. GIS tools are implemented for data visualization and statistical analysis. Geographically weighted ... -
Application Of Input-Output Analysis In The Health Care
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)The aim of this article is an attempt of the use of models of input-output type in the analysis of the performance of the health care sector in Poland. The construction of input-output model is based on the observed data ... -
The Effect Of Omitted Spatial Effects And Social Dependence In The Modelling Of Household Expenditure For Fruits And Vegetables
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)We find the omitted elements of the external environment affect negatively the estimates for other spatial (social) effect parameters. Especially, we notice the overestimation of the random effect variance when the social ... -
Leaders And Followers In The Effectiveness Of Public Safety Services In European States – A Spatial Frontier Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)This research indicates that despite many differences among states’ public safety policies, improvement and regional development can be stimulated and achieved by implementing the “learning-from-the-best” policy. -
Economic Development And Transfrontier Shipments Of Waste In Poland – Spatio-Temporal Analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-12-30)The aim of the paper is to apply the spatio-temporal Environmental Kuznets Curve (SpEKC) to test the relationship between economic growth and the amount of collected mixed municipal waste. The analysis was conducted at the ...