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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Regional Labor Mobility of German University Graduates
Krabel, Stefan; Flöther, Choni - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872264
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Inflation Targeting and Regional Inflation Persistence: Evidence from Korea
Tillmann, Peter - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
The adoption of a credible monetary policy regime such as inflation targeting is known to reduce the persistence of inflation fluctuations. This conclusion, however, is derived from aggregate inflation or sectoral inflation rates, not from regional inflation data. This paper studies the regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018133
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The Importance of Spatial Autocorrelation for Regional Employment Growth in Germany
Zierahn, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 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/10008692979
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Regional Effects of Federal Tax Shocks
Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find considerable variations: estimated output multipliers lie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543457
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How scale and institutional setting explain the costs of small airports? -An application of spatial regression analysis
Ülkü, Tolga; Jeleskovic, Vahidin; Müller, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
One of the main pillars of efficient airport operations is cost-minimization. Unit costs of operation with respect to the level of passengers served are a possible proxy to measure the cost efficiency of an airport. Due to compound production framework and sophisticated political-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890083
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Market Access, Regional Price Level and Wage Disparities: The German Case
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652890
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Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf das wirtschaftliche Niveau der Regionen in Deutschland
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Muraro, Nina - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
This paper examines the impact of demographic change on production today and in 2020. For the estimation a translog production function is used. The results show a mostly divergent development. It is shown that there is a strong centre-periphery disparity. Taking the population in 2020 into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685599
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Resource Wealth and Entrepreneurship: A Blessing or a Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
investigate the reasons behind such a significant lag of the resource-rich countries in entrepreneurship. Panel data for more than … 80 countries from 2004-2009 shows that higher dependence on resource rents reduces entrepreneurship activities. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897846
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Can Oil-Rich Countries Encourage Entrepreneurship? ‘Yes’, ‘No’ but not ‘Perhaps’
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
.e., marginalized entrepreneurship activities. Our panel data analysis of 65 countries from 2004 to 2011 shows a negative and … statistically significant association between oil rents dependency and entrepreneurship indicator. This finding is robust to control … of other major drivers of entrepreneurship, unobservable country and time fixed effects and a different measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897848