Economic geographers have paid much attention to the cultural and creative industries, both
for their propensity to cluster in urban settings, and their potential to drive urban economic …

We explore the effect of unemployment on mental health, using data from Finnish
municipalities for the period 2002–2019. We measure mental illness using a mental …

Purpose While conventional views of foreign investment activity primarily relate to efficiency-
seeking investments, the authors argue that most other outward foreign direct investments …

Brazil is considered to be one of the leading mineral resource producers worldwide,
alongside other major countries such as Australia, Canada, China, the United States, and …

In many central business districts (CBDs), job growth has occurred since the 1990s, but at a
far slower rate than in non-CBD areas. Over this time, there has been a great divergence in …

This paper provides estimates of local employment multipliers from large, publicly
subsidized firms. We use a synthetic control weighted difference‐in‐difference estimation …

The policy responses by state and local governments and reactions by individuals to the
outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic were wide-ranging across the US, often falling along …

This paper offers policymakers a novel tool for calculating employment multipliers. A
theoretical model incorporating a non-tradeable employment function is combined with a …

This paper studies the impact of the remarkable increase in the share of public employment
on the private sector across 156 Greek municipalities using Census data (1981–2011). To …

Governments heavily focus on advancing capital-intense high-tech production and exports
for economic growth. The findings on seven European Union (EU) countries associated as …