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Regional Income Inequality and Convergence Processes in the EU-25

Paas, Tiiu; Schlitte, Friso - 2006

This paper deals with the development of regional income disparities and convergence processes in the countries of the … the period 1995 - 2003. We use the two classical concepts of s – and ß-convergence. Furthermore, spatial econometric …

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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic … scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide additional information on the spatial aspect of convergence. Spatial … econometric methods are used to investigate regional convergence in West Germany. The results indicate that spatial interaction is …

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Regional convergence in the European Union (1985 - 1999): A spatial dynamic panel analysis

Badinger, Harald; Müller, Werner G.; Tondl, Gabriele - 2002

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So … convergence of 6.9 per cent and a capital elasticity of 0.43. …

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Dynamic Spatial Modelling of Regional Convergence Processes

Lauridsen, Jørgen; Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2004

Econometric analysis of convergence processes across countries or regions usually refers to a transition period between … issue of conditional income and productivity convergence across labour market regions in unified Germany. …

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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - 2004

We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...

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Threshold effects and regional economic growth – Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2001

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 the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...

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Glocalisation, foreign direct investment and regional development perspectives: Empirical results for West German regions

Knödler, Hermann; Albertshauser, Ulrich - 2001

The present paper examines the economic development perspectives of the manufacturing sector of 31 major West German regions in the process of globalisation. Public statistics do not provide FDI data on a regional basis. Therefore our study was based on indicators based on the data from the...

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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

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Spatial structural change – Evidence and prospects

Bade, Franz-Josef; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Schönert, Matthias - 2000

Main topics of the following analysis are the development of spatial structure and the question whether the economic disparities between agglomerations and peripheral areas will con- or diverge. Frequently, economic disparities are measured by per capita i ncome. Because of the relationship...

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Räumliche Wachstumszusammenhänge – Empirische Befunde für Deutschland

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit Wachstumsabhängigkeiten zwischen räumlich benachbarten Gebieten in Westdeutschland im Zeitraum von 1976 bis 1996. Die Hypothese für derartige Wachstumsabhängigkeiten leitet sich aus der räumlichen Dimension von Mechanismen ab, denen ein...

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