This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German states and planning regions following the approach...

There has been much informal speculation on how changes in economic circumstances contribute to partnership dissolution; however there has been little empirical work testing these speculations. This paper aims to shed light on how micro level factors such as receiving a financial windfall and...

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

Spain has become a country of immigration very fast and in an unusual way. At the beginning of the year 2000, foreigners represented barely 2% of the total population, a figure which rose to 12% and exceeded 5.7 million in 2012. Considering its population size, Spain was the country which...

Current developed economies' growth becomes increasingly dependent on the performance of innovation and skill-intensive industries. Therefore, the ability of cities to attract skilled or highly-educated individuals becomes more and more important for their growth and economic development. In...

The urban economics literature provides ample evidence of an urban wage premium: wages are higher in larger urban areas. This paper addresses three central issues of the urban wage premium about which the field has not yet reached a consensus. First, the extent to which sorting of high ability...

In this paper, I develop a simple model of spatial equilibrium to investigate theoretically what determines the sign and magnitude of ``local multipliers' (defined as elasticity of employment in the non-tradable sector with respect to increase in employment in the tradable sector). I estimate...

Mainstream sociological theory relates right-wing extremism to a situation in which losers of modernization emerge from a rapidly changing social and demographic environment as well as from structural economic change (the reinforcement of core-periphery patterns and the decline of manufacturing...

Quality of Life, as the holistic experience of life, occurs through the interaction of resources and conditions of life and society?s needs, expectations and evaluations concerning those resources and conditions. Land use attributes and their spatial organization, public services and utilization...