Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal distribution. Thus, application of the threshold model to a real world case, here West Germany, shows that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns.

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Funke, Michael ; Niebuhr, Annekatrin
Publisher:	Munich : Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Subject:	regional economic growth \| human capital \| Germany

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Series:	CESifo Working Paper ; 690
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	845374982 [GVK] hdl:10419/76076 [Handle] RePec:ces:ceswps:_690 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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