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Subsidization and Structural Change in Eastern German Transition: Did Economic Policy Meet Its Objectives?

Gerling, Katja - 2000

Economic policy interventions of a scale as effected in eastern Germany can be expected to have a significant impact on the economy, which may be in accordance with the objectives of the policy measures or manifest itself in distortions of several kinds. This paper analyzes the structural...

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Explaining the regional distribution of new economy firms: a count data analysis

Dohse, Dirk; Schertler, Andrea - 2003

Although there is a host of literature on the locational choice of traditional economy firms, relatively little is known about the locational needs and preferences of new economy firms. Therefore, the current paper provides an empirical analysis of the factors determining the regional...

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The impact of a Customs Union with the EU on internal migration in Turkey under the two alternative Harris-Todaro and wage curve settings

De Santis, Roberto A. - 1998

rural to urban areas, despite agriculture remaining protected; causes a reduction of the urban unemployment rate and the …

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The economic integration of forced migrants: Evidence for post-war Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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Hiring chains and the dynamic behavior of job and worker flows

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

the unemployment rate. I show that a simple frictionless business cycle model with heterogeneity and a simple form of on … employment growth. Worker flows are related to both employment growth and the unemployment rate, and quits and hires are …-the-job search, and quits beget hires to replace quitters. High unemployment crowds out quits, shortens the hiring chain, reduces the …

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Extensive vs. intensive margin in Germany and the United States: any differences?

Merkl, Christian; Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2009

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...

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Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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BioRegio, BioProfile and the rise of the German biotech industry

Dohse, Dirk; Staehler, Tanja - 2008

The BioRegio contest and the BioProfile contest initiated by the German Federal Government have drawn much international attention as prototypes of a new kind of technology policy aiming at the exploitation of regional innovation and growth potential through clustering. There is, however, little...

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Does foreign direct investment promote regional development in developed countries? A Markov chain approach for US states

Bode, Eckhardt; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2007

This paper investigates the effects of inward FDI on per-capita income and growth of the US states since the mid-1970s. Using a Markov chain approach, it shows that both quantitative and qualitative characteristics of FDI affect per-capita income and growth. Employment-intensive FDI,...

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What can a New Keynesian labor matching model match?

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2009

A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success. However, it cannot explain much of the behavior of employment, vacancies, and job flows in postwar US data without resorting to additional shocks beyond monetary policy and...

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