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Dynamic clusters
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Globalization has had an enormous impact on traditional industrial structures. It seems almost the case that everything is everywhere the same. And yet, in reality, some regions in a single industrialized country enjoy rapid economic growth while others are downsizing or stagnating. Thus there...
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Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition : empirical evidence from German counties
Bischoff, Ivo; Hauschildt, Julia - 2017 - Version: May 17, 2017
The German apprenticeship system is widely known throughout the world. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools on county level using data from 213 West-German counties between 2001 and 2006. We use spatial econometrics to test for spatial correlation in counties' expenditure on vocational...
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Housing market convergence : evidence from Germany
Unal, Umut; Hayo, Bernd; Erol, Isil - 2022
This paper provides an analysis of the convergence pattern of German housing prices and rents employing a new dataset … that covers all the country's administrative districts. In addition to conventional tests for 𝛽-convergence and 𝜎-convergence … districts. Our results reveal no evidence of convergence across Germany or within states; rather, we discover widespread …
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The prices of residential land in German counties
Braun, Stefanie; Lee, Gabriel S. - 2020
We estimate changes in the value and price of residential land for 379 German counties ("Landkreise") from 2014 to 2017 using a total of 42,685 observations. We use the two-step residual method that decomposes the value of a home into the value of the structure and land value. Despite the short...
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Market access, regional price level and wage disparities : the German case
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - 2008
In this paper we use the NEG framework of the Helpman model to investigate the spatial distribution of wages across German labour market regions under different assumptions. As the assumptions of equal regional price level and equal real wages are strongly rejected for the German economy,...
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The importance of spatial autocorrelation for regional employment growth in Germany
Zierahn, Ulrich - 2010
In analyzing the disparities of the regional developments in the volume of employment in Germany, in the recent empirical literature so called shift-share-regression-models are frequently applied. However, these models usually neglect spatial interdependencies, even though such interdependencies...
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Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf das wirtschaftliche Niveau der Regionen in Deutschland
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Muraro, Nina - 2009
Gegenstand des Artikels ist die Schätzung einer Translog-Produktionsfunktion, die die Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf die Produktion heute und im Jahr 2020 betrachtet. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf eine Entwicklung hin, die zu steigenden Disparitäten führt. Schon heute ist ein...
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Agglomeration economies with consistent productivity estimates
Ehrl, Philipp - 2011
This paper investigates the relative impact of microeconomic agglomeration mechanisms on plant's total factor productivity (TFP) using German establishment and employment level data. Contrasting different strategies to estimate TFP from plant level production functions reveals that not...
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Here today, gone tomorrow? : regional labor mobility of German university graduates
Krabel, Stefan; Flöther, Choni - 2011
In this study we trace university graduates' labor mobility when entering the labor market after graduation. We examine to what extent such mobility is determined by regional factors of the university region, personal characteristics of graduates as well as their field of study. Our analysis is...
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High-wage workers and high-productivity firms : a regional view on matching in Germany
Ehrl, Philipp - 2014
This paper analyzes assortative matching between employers and employees and its interrelations with the employment density of local labor markets in Germany. I devote attention to the identiication of accurate quality measures: plants' total factor productivity and workers' fixed effect. Two...
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