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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Süße, Marvin - 2019

What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...

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On the Road (Again) : Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany

Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2021

thrilling counterpoint to the United States. Our key findings for German counties are that the employment and resident …

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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008

1 funds, but no employment effects. A simple cost-benefit calculation suggests that Objective 1 transfers are not only …

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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...

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Local Economic Growth and Infant Mortality

Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Gunther G. - 2021

We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we...

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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022

We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...

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Economic Effects of Regional Energy System Transformations : An Application to the Bavarian Oberland Region

Montoya, Ana Maria - 2020

This paper analyzes the effects of different energy transition paths on regional value added and on employment. We … in terms of additional value added and employment. Yet, the positive development comes at the expense of value added and … employment in the rest of the country. Moreover, our analysis shows that medium-skilled employment increases most across all …

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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching

Orefice, Gianluca - 2020

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...

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Mismatch Unemployment in Austria : The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve...

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New Region, New Chances : Does Moving Regionally for University Shape Later Job Mobility?

Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022

The extensive literature on university graduates’ regional mobility highlights the importance of early mobility but is primarily descriptive. We contribute the identification of the effect of mobility upon high-school graduation on subsequent mobility across labour market regions. The data...

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