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what I call a "rationed agglomeration" in which some entrepreneurs gather around an established firm while other … entrepreneurs in the same business stand alone. In a rationed agglomeration, I analyze the e¤ects of relations between established …
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This paper is concerned with the question as to what extent population size and density affect the cost of providing public services at the subnational level. Empirical estimates of cost functions are obtained from an analysis of the expenditures of German states disaggregated into about 40...
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Endogeneity in network formation hinders the identification of the role social networks play in generating spillovers, peer effects and other externalities. This paper tackles this problem and investigates how the link network between articles on the German Wikipedia influences the attention and...
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I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia prominently advertises one featured article on its main...
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national … empirical results imply that for students with a migration background a key for catching up is the language spoken at home. We …
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This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...
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A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues,...
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This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …
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Understanding the way in which knowledge is technically produced and transferred, and how its diffusion path can be … relevant literature so far has paid less attention investigating the microeconomic link between knowledge transfer and … knowledge diffusion in a comprehensive approach. The aim of this paper is to highlight the link between knowledge transfer …
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