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Agglomeration and regional employment growth
Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"The advent of the New Economic Geography has spawned a renewed interest in questions of agglomeration. The work expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical literature. A localization index and a cluster index are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592274
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The mysteries of the trade: employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers
Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592400
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Agglomeration and regional employment growth
Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"The advent of the New Economic Geography has spawned a renewed interest in questions of agglomeration. The work expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical literature. A localization index and a cluster index are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008547920
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The mysteries of the trade: employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers
Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506503
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A Global Vector Autoregression (GVAR) model for regional labour markets and its forecasting performance with leading indicators in Germany
Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"It is broadly accepted that two aspects regarding the modeling strategy are essential for the accuracy of forecast: a parsimonious model focusing on the important structures, and the quality of prospective information. Here, we establish a Global VAR framework, a technique that considers a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011220297
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Direct and indirect effects of mass layoffs : evidence from geo-referenced data
Berge, Philipp vom; Schmillen, Achim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"Using a novel data set that contains precise geo-referenced information on the universe of German establishments, we analyse both the direct effects of mass layoffs and any indirect impacts on workers who are employed in the vicinity of an establishment being closed down. In line with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206873
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New insights into the development of regional unemployment disparities
Werner, Daniel - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Large regional unemployment disparities are a common feature of the labor market in many countries. This study deals … with the question whether regional unemployment disparities in western Germany widen, become narrower or remain constant … over time. It examines the hypothesis of convergence for regional unemployment rates of western German Federal States and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691303
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Regional determinants of German FDI in the Czech Republic : evidence from a gravity model approach
Schäffler, Johannes; Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"The attractiveness for the location of multinational firms is seen as a crucial issue for the development and prosperity of regions. This article focuses on a two-country relationship and deals with the regional distribution of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747852
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Exports, agglomeration and workforce diversity : an empirical assessment for German establishments
Brunow, Stephan; Grünwald, Luise - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"Theoretical and empirical contributions on export behavior highlight the importance of firms' productivity and their levels of economies of scale on firms' export success in 'foreign' markets. In the context of agglomeration economies, firms enjoy productivity gains when they are located close...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144073
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Korrekturverfahren zur Berechnung der Einkommen über der Beitragsbemessungsgrenze
Binder, Jan; Schwengler, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
"Der durchschnittliche Bruttojahreslohn pro Beschäftigtem in einer Region liefert wertvolle Informationen über die regionalen Verdienstmöglichkeiten. Bedingt durch das Meldeverfahren an die Sozialversicherungsträger werden die Einkommen jedoch nicht mit ihrer vollen Höhe erfasst, sondern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592283