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The mysteries of the trade: Employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010

Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...

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Disparities, persistence and dynamics of regional unemployment rates in Germany

Kunz, Marcus - 2009

Das Papier zeigt, dass die Verteilung der regionalen Arbeitslosenquoten in Deutschland stark persistentes Verhalten aufweist. Außerdem zeigen panel unit root tests und autoregressive modelle mit fixen Effekten, dass regionale Arbeitslosenquoten eher bedingter als unbedingter Konvergenz folgen....

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Human capital mobility and convergence: A spatial dynamic panel model of the German regions

Kubis, Alexander; Schneider, Lutz - 2012

might either - in the case of low-skilled migration - accelerate or - in high-skilled case - impede convergence. Due to the … mobility affects convergence via the human capital selectivity of migration. With regard to the endogeneity of the migration … flows and human capital, we apply a dynamic panel data model within the framework of Ø-convergence and account for spatial …

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New insights into the development of regional unemployment disparities

Werner, Daniel - 2013

over time. It examines the hypothesis of convergence for regional unemployment rates of western German Federal States and … the time period 1968 to 2009 following different concepts of convergence. Western German regional unemployment rates … exhibit ß-convergence but no 0-convergence. Further, regional unemployment rates show a high degree of intra …

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Profiles of local growth and industrial change: Facts and an explanation

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2012

In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...

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The rise of the East and the far East: German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012

Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen des beispiellosen Anstiegs des internationalen Handels zwischen Deutschland und dem Osten - China und Osteuropa - im Zeitraum 1988-2008 auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Anhand von administrativen Daten nutzen wir die regionale Variation der...

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Local economic structure and industry development in Germany (1993-2001)

Blien, Uwe; Suedekum, Jens - 2005

This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison between the neighbouring countries we firstly replicate the study of Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and...

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Regional patterns and determinants of new firm formation and survival in Western Germany

Brixy, Udo; Grotz, Reinhold - 2006

There is a large body of literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation. In contrast there are few articles on the spatial differences in new firm survival. Using panel data we analyse both items for 74 western German regions over a ten-year period. The positive...

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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth

Schlitte, Friso - 2010

Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....

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Persistence of regional unemployment: Application of a spatial filtering approach to local labour markets in Germany

Patuelli, Roberto; Schanne, Norbert; Griffith, Daniel A.; … - 2011

The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as Germany) have been, in recent years, the subject of various theoretical and empirical studies. Several researchers have shown an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment...

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