Social Capital and growth in European regions

  1. Isabel Neira 1
  2. Marta Portela 1
  3. Elvira Vieira 2
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

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  2. 2 Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
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    Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo

    Viana do Castelo, Portugal

    ROR https://ror.org/03w6kry90

Revista:
Estudios Economicos Regionales y Sectoriales : EERS: Regional and sectoral economic studies : RSES

ISSN: 1578-4460

Ano de publicación: 2010

Volume: 10

Número: 2

Páxinas: 19-28

Tipo: Artigo

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Resumo

Theories of economic growth at the regional and national level, have expanded the traditional production function of the Solow model towards a wide function that collects conditioning factors of labour productivity, measured by R & D expenditure, the number of patents, the human capital, the social capital or entrepreneurship rates. This set of factors have been developed by authors like Westlund (2006) and Koo and Kim (2009). The aim of this paper is to analyze regional growth in the EU, considering the differences between the EU15 and its eastern regions, using such set of factors and taking into account the limitations of existing data for this type of analysis.

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