The objective of the present paper is to study the impact of R&D investment on inter-regional labour migration and inter-sectoral labour reallocation in the EU, specifically at regional level. In order to capture important general equilibrium effects, we employ a structural NEG model called...

Regions in Germany are facing an intensifying structural change towards the knowledge economy which is affecting spatial patterns of growth. . Features of such a change know many facets: fierce competition for skilled, mobile and motivated labor force, unemployment of non-qualified labor, longer...

It is necessary for policy-makers to assess region's overall performance and given sector's efficiency relative to other industry sector's performance in the region to achieve regional policy objectives. Regional economics has attempted to develop techniques to analyze differences among regional...

Die Elektrifizierung des Antriebsstrangs bei Personenkraftwagen hat langfristig einen negativen Effekt auf das Wirtschaftswachstum und auf die Beschäftigung. Analysen bezüglich der regionalen Auswirkungen einer Elektrifizierung des Antriebsstrangs sind bislang jedoch nur wenig vorhanden und...

This paper discusses broad trends in labour force participation and part-time employment across different age groups since the Great Recession and uses provincial data to identify changes related to population aging, cyclical effects and other factors. The main population age groups examined are...

The development of employment and unemployment in regional labour markets is known to spatially interdependent. Global Vector-Autoregressive (GVAR) models generate a link between the local and the surrounding labour markets and thus might be useful when analysing and forecasting employment and...