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The Poor Stay Poor: Non-Convergence Across Countries and Regions

Canova, Fabio; Marcet, Albert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We study the issue of income convergence across countries and regions with a Bayesian model which allows us to use … information in an efficient and flexible way. We argue that the very slow convergence rates to a common level of per-capita income … introduces in the results. Our approach permits the estimation of different convergence rates to different steady states for each …

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Regional Policies and EU Enlargement

Boldrin, Michele; Canova, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

examines what is the best way for candidate countries to fuel real convergence. The experience from earlier EU enlargements and … should be terminated as soon as possible. Second, labour and capital mobility are good for growth and economic convergence …

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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany

Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf’s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of...

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The Size Distribution Across All "Cities": A Unifying Approach

Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...

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Local Economic Structure and Industry Development in Germany, 1993-2001

Blien, Uwe; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison between the neighbouring countries we firstly replicate the study of Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and...

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Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977-2002). I find robust evidence that skilled cities grow faster than unskilled ones, but this need not indicate localized human capital externalities are at work. A large initial share...

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Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants

López, Ricardo A; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers, but no evidence of crossindustry spillovers in...

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Local Employment Growth in West Germany: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Blien, Uwe; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, Katja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...

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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...

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