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Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities

Suedekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

workers move from the periphery to the core, but it is rather reinforced by migration. These theoretical predictions of our …

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Regional Adjustment Dynamics

Moller, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

The aim of the paper is to develop a theoretical framework for analyzing regional adjustment processes after idiosyncratic shocks. The model builds on the macroeconomic approach with monopolistic competition on goods and labor markets. It is shown how interregional factor mobility affects...

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Teacher Job Satisfaction, Student Achievement, and the Cost of Primary Education in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Michaelowa, Katharina - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

in Africa. Using standardized data for student achievement in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and …

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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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Ost-West-Migrations-Potential: Wie Gross Ist Es?

Straubhaar, Thomas - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

net migraton (including return migration) might be about 0.1% of total CEEC-population. If we assume that in a first wave …, Lithuania, Latvia), the East-West migration potential will be about 3%-4% (gross) and 1½%-2% (net) of the total CEEC … about 0.8% of the total EU population. Therefore, fears of "mass migration" seem highly exaggerated. Muchmore, with regard …

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Internationale Migration Gehen oder Bleiben: Wieso gehen wenige und bleiben die meisten?

Straubhaar, Thomas - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2000

individual decision to migrate? This paper argues that standard migration theories often concentrate too strongly on explanations … labour market will not generate very much east-west migration. …

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