The whole set of indicators that could explain business dynamics.
Published in Chapter:
The Impact of Being a Border Region in Business Demography: An Analysis in the European Union
Paulo Ferreira (Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal & VALORIZA - Research Center for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Portalegre, Portugal & Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal), Luis Loures (Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portugal & VALORIZA - Research Center for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Portalegre, Portugal & Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal), and Miguel Serafim (Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2513-5.ch002
Abstract
The promotion of the entrepreneurship has been a challenge in recent years because it is recognised that entrepreneurial activity enhances economic growth. Border regions, because of the possibility of increasing cooperation between economic agents, gained a special status. Still, some of those cross-border regions continue to grow slower than other regions. Authors analyse business dynamics and entrepreneurial activities at a regional basis for the EU. Considering data availability, authors analyse 13 different countries. Indicators under analysis are birth rates, death rates, business churn, and survival rate. This chapter identifies and analyses the existence of significant differences between regions located alongside border areas, and analyses if there exist differences depending on the countries of those regions. To compare business demographic indicators, parametric tests will be used. The results are analysed considering the potential differences between cross-border and non-cross-border regions.