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Entrepreneurial activity of the Russian population: factors of cross-regional diversity – methodology, indicators, preliminary findings
Ch. 7. P. 127-144.
The cahpter deals with the cross-regional variety of entrepreneurial activity in Russia and the factors which may determine it, basing on the results of a representative survey of ca. 56 000 adults in the regions of Russin (2011)/ It is shown that the quality of the entrepreneurial activity of population (prevalence of the opportunity driven entrepreneurship) does not correlate with the density of already existing SMEs as well as with the level of unemployment; but it correlates with with the level of urbanization as well as with the level of the well-being of population of rerspective regions. Besides, the regional TEA positively correlate with the perceived opportunity and the self-efficacy of adults i respective regions.
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Ivanov D., Yakovlev A. A., Вестник Национальной ассоциации участников фондового рынка (НАУФОР) 2016 № 3 С. 45-56
Рейтинги делового климата стран и регионов давно уже стали привычны для бизнесменов, чиновников и представителей экспертного сообщества. В том числе, и в России. Это удобный статистический инструмент. Однако для правильной трактовки рейтинги требуют понимания того, что конкретно и каким образом измеряется ...
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Кульпин С. В., Савчук Г. А., Якимова О. А., Экономика региона 2022 Т. 18 № 2 С. 437-449
Economy digitalisation creates new market mechanisms and regional development opportunities. In cer-tain circumstances, the C2C (consumer-to-consumer) Internet market can act as a basis for establishing an entrepreneurial culture; subsequently, it can turn into an economic growth point of a region. However, since the entrepreneurial potential of regional digital markets varies, it is crucial to investigate ...
Added: January 22, 2023
Demin A., Libman A., Eras L., Eurasian Geography and Economics 2019 Vol. 60 No. 3 P. 257-283
The social origin of elites is important as it, first, affects the political decision-making, and second, is an indicator of social mobility important for the stability of a political system. However, how does the consolidation of an authoritarian regime affect the composition of elites in terms of their social origin? This study investigates this question ...
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Bolshakov N., Prisyazhniuk D., Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2021 № 3 С. 424-449
The article offers sociological perspective on the reform of social services in the Russian regions frames of the New Public Management (NPM) in the context of the developing inter-sector cooperation in the emerging quasi-markets of social services. These reforms imply not only the renewal of management philosophy and tools, but also changes at the cultural ...
Added: May 24, 2021
Gaivoronsky Y., Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2019 Vol. 52 No. 4 P. 323-330
The article attempts to identify major factors of the nationalization of the vote in contemporary Russia using the two level approach: the between- and within-region. The former compares regions as units of analysis while the latter additionally takes into account voting in municipalities to obtain levels of voting homogeneity within the regions. The study uses ...
Added: December 9, 2016
Юревич М. А., Fedyunina A., Gorodnyi N., Вопросы экономики 2024
The present study develops a methodology of business expectations index nowcasting with testing on data for the Russian economy as a whole and its regions. The methodology differs from the existing solutions in that it introduces a Bayesian averaging approach to define a set of search patterns for nowcasting and solves the issue of aggregation ...
Added: December 8, 2023
Терещенко Д. С., Щербаков В. С., Economy of Region 2021 Vol. 17 No. 1 P. 223-234
Universities play a crucial role in local economies, providing educational services and participating in research and development. This is particularly important for Russia where regions are highly differentiated in terms of both socio-economic development and technological progress and innovations. However, many regional universities in Russia have traditionally focused primarily on teaching, with less emphasis on ...
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Туляева С. А., Nemirovskaya A., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2024 Т. 27 № 1 С. 216-246
In recent years, environmental protests have intensified in Russian regions.
At the same time, the level of protest activity in the population is not directly dependent
on the degree of environmental threats but is due to various political and social factors.
According to researchers, one of the main factors contributing to the mobilization of the
population is regional identity. ...
Added: March 12, 2024
Zyuzin A., Demidova O., Dolgopyatova T. G., Пространственная экономика 2020 Т. 16 № 2 С. 39-69
This paper studies the influence of industry localization and region economy diversification on firm profitability in Russia and provides quantitative estimation to such an influence. In this paper two main hypotheses are tested: (a) industry localization and region economy diversification improve enterprise profitability and (b) both localization and diversification influence smaller companies rather than bigger ones. ...
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Жукова А. К., Silaev A. M., Silaeva M. V., Пространственная экономика 2016 № 4 С. 112-128
The paper examines the influence of various socio-economic and environmental factors on the life expectancy of the Russian population using regional data in 2014. With the help of spatial econometrics the authors show that there are differences in the models of life expectancy for men and women, as well as for residents from the western ...
Added: January 3, 2017
Degterev D. A., В кн. : Регионы в политике, политика в регионах. Политическая наука: Ежегодник-2023. : М., Пермь : ИЦ «Титул», 2023. Гл. 5. С. 103-121.
The article examines the directions of development of regional studies in the conditions of radical international transformations. The author, starting from the “contemplative” nature of traditional regional studies, substantiates the importance of cross-regional studies in the context of new challenges to international security that Russia faces at this stage, and also outlines the contours of a ...
Added: February 2, 2024
Demidova O., Ivanov D., Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики 2016 Т. 20 № 1 С. 52-75
The fundamental idea underpinning spatial econometric models of economic growth is as follows: regional growth is determined not only by social, economic, geographic traits of a region but also by spillovers from other regions, most importantly adjacent ones. If one region starts booming, it can left neighbors unaffected (neutral mechanism), spur their growth (cooperation mechanism) ...
Added: April 22, 2016
Dubrova T.A., Ermolina A.A., Esenin M.A., International Journal of Economics and Business Administration 2019 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 26-40
Puprose: The article is aimed at comprehensive study of small enterprises’ innovative activity in Russia and highlights the key constraints factors as well as factors promoting small business innovative activity.
Design/Methodology/Approach: We conduct a review of modern domestic and foreign studies on innovative development of SMEs their components and factors to give a comparative description of ...
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Adjusting the Scope of Interaction Between State and Civil Society: HIV Prevention Among Drug Users.
Aasland A., Meylakhs A., , in : Governance in Russian Regions: A Policy Comparison. : Netherlands : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Ch. 3. P. 43 -71.
This chapter addresses the interaction between the authorities and non-state actors in HIV prevention among drug users. Based on case studies in Samara and St. Petersburg, it looks into the mix of vertical structures of governance (dominated by health authorities, including the regional AIDS centers, and drug control authorities) and aspects of network governance where ...
Added: January 31, 2018
Blinkin M. Y., Koncheva E., Kulakov A. et al., Cham : Springer, 2016
This volume discusses post-socialist urban transport functioning and development in Russia, within the context of the country’s recent transition towards a market economy. Over the past twenty-five years, urban transport in Russia has undergone serious transformations, prompted by the transitioning economy. Yet, the lack of readily available statistical data has led to a gap in ...
Added: October 19, 2016
Vasilyeva O., Libman A., European Journal of Political Economy 2020 Vol. 63 Article 101869
A broad literature suggests that political regimes matter for the growth effect of natural resources. However, while several studies have concentrated on the difference between democracies and autocracies in this respect, an important topic overlooked so far is the differences between varieties of authoritarian regimes. This study uses the political variation across sub-national regions of ...
Added: August 2, 2021
Kabanov Y., Чугунов А. В., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2021 Т. 19 № 1 С. 101-114
Human development, social policy and e-participation are interdependent. Effective social investment in the human capital leads to the emergence of demand for participation mechanisms among citizens, which in turn results in the willingness of authorities to implement participatory innovations. At the same time, e-participation is itself a part of the social investment paradigm, aimed at raising the quality of ...
Added: April 13, 2021
Elena A. Tretiakova, Maksim A. Kurganov, Economy of Region 2023 Vol. 19 No. 3 P. 668-682
Introduction of the concept of sustainable development (SD) led to the transformation of values and interests of key stakeholders: the government, population and business. Since consideration of regional stakeholder interests is crucial for ensuring SD of large countries like Russia, a methodology is needed to assess their fulfilment, balance and consistency. However, previous studies of ...
Added: October 7, 2023
Ермаков А. В., Merzlyakov S., Горизонты экономики 2016 Т. 5 № 31 С. 46-54
This paper analyzes the regional debt problem in the context of spatial effects in Russian regions. Using spatial econometrics, we determine the key socio-economic factors of the regional debt accumulation. We show that an increase in the debt in one region affects the debt accumulation in the neighbor regions. We also find that regional debt ...
Added: November 10, 2016
Kholodilin K., Янжимаева Ю. И., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2019.
A uniform distribution of population over the territory of a country is very important from socio-economic and strategic standpoints. It is especially relevant for Russia whose European part is densely populated, while Asian part has very sparse population. In this study, we examine the changes in the population density of Russian regions between 1897 and ...
Added: May 27, 2019
Kossova T. V., Экономическая политика 2020 Т. 15 № 6 С. 90-109
Infectious disease mortality occupies a small share in the structure of mortality in developed countries. However, it is concentrated in relatively young ages, and it entails significant economic costs. From 1990 to 2018, Russian regions showed different dynamics of mortality from infectious diseases. Some regions managed to reverse the negative growth trend in mortality in ...
Added: February 5, 2021
Aldieri L., Kotsemir M. N., Vinci C. P., Foresight 2020 Vol. 22 No. 4 P. 437-468
Purpose. What is the effect of an increase of migration inflows on the R&D and innovative performance of developing countries? The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of migration inflows on the R&D and innovation activity (measured as expenditures on R&D and technological innovations) in Russian regions.
Design/methodology/approach. To this end, the authors ...
Added: June 30, 2020
O. А. Демидова, Прикладная эконометрика 2021 № 4(64) С. 107-134
The article provides an overview of the main spatial-econometric models and notes the shortcomings that limit their application to the description of the processes taking place in large heterogeneous countries, such as Russia. The main approaches and modifications of the models are given, which make it possible to take into account Russian conditions, and a ...
Added: April 7, 2022
Tarasenko A., East European Politics 2022
Why do regions (non)comply or creatively comply in response to federal-driven reforms in Russia? This article studies the interplay of interests and incentives prompted by a contract between a principal and agents on the one hand, and shaped by the regional socio-economic context on the other. The analysis proved that the incapacity of the public ...
Added: November 1, 2022