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EU structural funds and regional income convergence : a sobering experience

Breidenbach, Philipp; Mitze, Timo; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2016

The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the prime instrument of EU regional policy. European policy makers place considerable hope into their growth stimulating funding measures to overcome current economic stagnation. Consequently, there is a strong need for credible evidence...

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Labor market effects of immigration : evidence from neighborhood data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Flake, Regina; Sinning, Mathias - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

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Decomposing the ins and outs of cyclical unemployment

Bachmann, Ronald; Sinning, Mathias - 2011

from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we decompose differences in employment status transition rates between economic … role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further …

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The complex regional effects of macro-institutional shocks : evidence from EU economic integration over three decades

Mitze, Timo; Breidenbach, Philipp - 2023

We use four subsequent EU enlargement waves over three decades (1980s, 1990s, 2000s) to assess the regional effects of macro-institutional changes. Our focus is set on EU internal border regions which are specifically exposed to international integration, but it remains unclear how they benefit...

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Wage growth, urbanization, and firm characteristics : evidence for Germany

Kelle, Markus - 2016

I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage growth of workers. I find a statistically highly significant higher within-job wage growth rate for workers in counties with a higher population density. This provides evidence...

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Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity : evidence from German neighborhoods

Dang, Rui - 2015

This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on...

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Is my rental price overestimated? : a small area index for Germany

Eilers, Lea - 2017

Real estate prices are central to a range of themes that are, e.g., relevant for monetary policy, community development, environmental valuation, and economic planning more generally. This paper developes a real estate index based on apartment offer prices on the post code level for Germany,...

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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 off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...

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Migration magnet : the role of work experience in rural-urban wage differentials in Mexico

Michaelsen, Maren; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2011

This study estimates separate selectivity bias corrected wage equations for formal and informal workers in rural and urban Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS). We control for different potential selection patterns using Probit and Multinominal logit models in the first...

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Network dependency in migration flows : a space-time analysis for Germany since re-unification

Mitze, Timo - 2010

The contribution of this paper is to analyse the role of network interdependencies in a dynamic panel data model for German internal migration flows since re-unification. So far, a capacious account of spatial patterns in German migration data is still missing in the empirical literature. In the...

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