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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions
Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004
The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...
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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002
process. Our main finding is that city growth in western Germany did not follow a random walk, while city growth in eastern … Germany did follow a random walk. Different post-war economic systems are most likely responsible for this outcome. …
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Optimal taxation under regional inequality
Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - 2014
Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces relocation incentives through higher taxes or lower transfers. Combining an intensive labor supply margin with an extensive, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how...
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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000
-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the old border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We study the link between subnational capital cities and urban development using a global data set of hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018. We show that gaining subnational capital status has a sizable effect on city growth in the medium run. We...
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The positive border effect of EU integration
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2011
Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...
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Subnational income growth and international border effects
Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Stadelmann, David - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...
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Appointed public officials and local favoritism : evidence from the German States
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2017
We study the local favoritism of appointed German state ministers. Matching hand-collected data on ministers' place of residence to a sample of more than 8,000 west German municipalities during the period 1994-2013, we find that the home municipality of a state minister experiences higher...
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Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy
Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Südekum, Jens - 2018
implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for Germany, we find that it indeed delivers smaller spatial economic …
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Lumpy countries, urbanization, and trade
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011
Lumpiness of production factors within a country might overturn the predictions for the structure of trade by the factor-abundance (HO) model. Trade patterns, as predicted by this model, can both be magnified or reversed by uneven concentration of production factors within a country. Cities are...
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