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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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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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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014

We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...

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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014

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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation ; conference paper

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014

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Local employment growth in West Germany : a dynamic panel approach

Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...

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

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2012

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Technological diffusion, spatial spillovers and regional convergence in Europe

Paci, Raffaele; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2001

convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …

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

Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2005

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Local economic structure and industry development in Germany, 1993 - 2001

Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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