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Aid Effectiveness Reconsidered - Panel Data Evidence for the Education Sector -

Michaelowa, Katharina - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Applying the general question of aid effectiveness to the sector of education, this paper reveals an overall positive … of education for all. Universal primary education requires increased efficiency of educational spending by donors and …

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Long-Term Unemployment, Technical Progress and Capital Mobility in an Open Growth-Matching Model

Birk, Angela - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

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Spatial R&D Spillovers and Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2000

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that emphasize the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

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Non-Linearities and Fractional Integration in the US Unemployment Rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

This paper proposes a model of the US unemployment rate which accounts for both its asymmetry and its long memory. Our approach, based on the tests of Robinson (1994), introduces fractional integration and nonlinearities simultaneously into the same framework (unlike earlier studies employing a...

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Taub, Bart - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

A firm monopsonistically hires labor from a pool containing both skilled and unskilled workers. The marginal value of a worker depends on the match between the job and the worker's skill level. Unskilled workers can have negative productivity if they are placed in a skilled job. The firm cannot...

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Integration and Labour Markets in European Border Regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Border regions are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by the enlargement of the EU. This paper deals with the effects of integration on labour markets in border regions. Within the framework of different theoretical approaches, the effects of integration on...

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The Final Frontier? Border Effects and German Regional Wages

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...

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New Economic Geography in Germany: Testing the Helpman-Hanson Model

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by...

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Sequential Migration, and the German Reunification

Birk, Angela - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

The paper develops a sequential migration model and derives a worker's optimal policies for migration and employment. With the worker's simulated reservation wage functions for employment and migration, a stationary equilibrium is defined. In that equilibrium, stationary distributions of...

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Subsidizing Education in the Economic Periphery: Another Pitfall of Regional Policies?

Sudekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in … that individual geographical mobility increases with the personal skill level. Through education subsidies, particularly if … periphery. This fatal result does not hold for such policies that foster basic education and focus on the relatively low skilled. …

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