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five largest cities in western Germany in the years 1989 to 2006. In this context, the strength of these relations is …
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The advent of the New Economic Geography has spawned a renewed interest in questions of agglomeration. The present work expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical literature. A localization index and a cluster...
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This paper analyzes the evolution of geographical concentration in the West German manufacturing, service, and knowledge-intensive sectors over a time period of 30 years. Drawing on detailed plant data of 187 industries from 1980 to 2010, we observe substantial concentration that is highest in...
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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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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall … Markets, Employment, China, Eastern Europe, Germany …
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impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they … 23 percent of the overall decline of manufacturing employment in Germany over the period 1994-2014, roughly 275,000 jobs … verarbeitenden Gewerbe, sowie die Auswirkungen auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Wir finden keine Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass …
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use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used … Untersuchung verwenden wir Daten zu Massenentlassungen in Deutschland, die zwischen 1980 und 2010 stattgefunden haben. Diese …
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