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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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Endogenous trade policy : political struggle in the growth process
Sugimoto, Yoshiaki (contributor) - 2006
This paper develops a dynamic theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class conflicts, and output growth performance over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional effects of international trade, it finds a prominent...
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Financial development and minimum capital requirements in macroeconomic analysis
Sunaga, Miho - 2023
We develop a macroeconomic model with a moral hazard problem between financial intermediaries and households, which causes inefficient resource allocation, to make us reconsider the financial regulation according to financial development, and individual and aggregate economic activities in the...
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Productivity growth, industry location patterns and labor market frictions
Davis, Colin; Hashimoto, Ken'ichi - 2019
This paper constructs a two-country model of international trade to study how labor market frictions affect industry location patterns, unemployment rates, and fully endogenous productivity growth. We show that when the larger country offers subsidies to labor search costs or reduces...
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Innovation offshoring with fully endogenous growth
Davis, Colin; Hashimoto, Ken'ichi - 2019
In recent years firms have started to offshore their innovation activities to emerging economies. This paper investigates the implications of innovation offshoring for productivity growth in a two-country framework that features a tension between access to technical knowledge and low-cost...
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The role of R&D-intensive clusters for regional competitiveness
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Mitze, Timo - 2020
productivity growth is found within the context of conditional convergence across German regions. With regard to the underlying …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748286
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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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