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The effect of broadband infrastructure on entrepreneurial activities: The case of Germany

Heger, Diana; Rinawi, Miriam; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This paper investigates whether the local infrastructure favours entrepreneurial activities. Besides the physical and knowledge infrastructure we take into account a county's broadband availability by building an index which accounts for county-related specificities. We find that broadband...

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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …

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Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen: Eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland

Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

Die EU-Osterweiterung ermöglicht eine stärkere Arbeitsteilung zwischen den relativ kapitalreichen Staaten der EU und den relativ arbeitsreichen Zutrittsländern Mittel- und Osteuropas, von der insbesondere die ostdeutschen Kreise in Nähe der Grenze profitieren können. Diese Studie widmet...

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Regional Versus Individual Aspects of the Digital Divide in Germany

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper analyzes the regional dimension of the German digital divide. It studies the determinants of home Internet use in Germany on the level of counties as well as on the level of individuals. Based on two large data sets, the analyses show that population density itself cannot explain...

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Regional Versus Individual Aspects of the Digital Divide in Germany

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper analyzes the regional dimension of the German digital divide. It considers the impact of regional characteristics on differences in the share of Internet use between German counties. In addition, it studies the influence of regional factors as well as individual characteristics on the...

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Regional versus individual aspects of the digital divide in Germany

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

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Firm formation and regional spillovers: evidence from Germany

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1995

effects of historically given industry structure and employment structure on the emergence of new firms. The results are …

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Employment effects of regional climate policy: The case of renewable energy promotion by feed-in tariffs

Heindl, Peter; Voigt, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

For the case of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, production and employment effects of the promotion of renewable … turnover and employment effects might be positive for the state in total. …

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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?

Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...

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Econometric evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy: a survey

Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

More than one third of the European Union's total budget is spent on socalled Cohesion Policy via the structural funds. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of the various European regions. Investigating the impact...

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