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A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks : evidence from German counties

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Gugler, Klaus - 2019 - This version: May 2019

There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...

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Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition : empirical evidence from German counties

Bischoff, Ivo; Hauschildt, Julia - 2017 - Version: May 17, 2017

The German apprenticeship system is widely known throughout the world. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools on county level using data from 213 West-German counties between 2001 and 2006. We use spatial econometrics to test for spatial correlation in counties' expenditure on vocational...

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Housing market convergence : evidence from Germany

Unal, Umut; Hayo, Bernd; Erol, Isil - 2022

This paper provides an analysis of the convergence pattern of German housing prices and rents employing a new dataset … that covers all the country's administrative districts. In addition to conventional tests for 𝛽-convergence and 𝜎-convergence … districts. Our results reveal no evidence of convergence across Germany or within states; rather, we discover widespread …

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Regional convergence and economic performance : a case study of the West German Laender

Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999

In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as … convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have been achieved with respect to a stronger harmonization of the …

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Market access, regional price level and wage disparities : the German case

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - 2008

In this paper we use the NEG framework of the Helpman model to investigate the spatial distribution of wages across German labour market regions under different assumptions. As the assumptions of equal regional price level and equal real wages are strongly rejected for the German economy,...

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Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf das wirtschaftliche Niveau der Regionen in Deutschland

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Muraro, Nina - 2009

Gegenstand des Artikels ist die Schätzung einer Translog-Produktionsfunktion, die die Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf die Produktion heute und im Jahr 2020 betrachtet. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf eine Entwicklung hin, die zu steigenden Disparitäten führt. Schon heute ist ein...

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The importance of spatial autocorrelation for regional employment growth in Germany

Zierahn, Ulrich - 2010

In analyzing the disparities of the regional developments in the volume of employment in Germany, in the recent empirical literature so called shift-share-regression-models are frequently applied. However, these models usually neglect spatial interdependencies, even though such interdependencies...

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Here today, gone tomorrow? : regional labor mobility of German university graduates

Krabel, Stefan; Flöther, Choni - 2011

In this study we trace university graduates' labor mobility when entering the labor market after graduation. We examine to what extent such mobility is determined by regional factors of the university region, personal characteristics of graduates as well as their field of study. Our analysis is...

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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss

Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022

Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...

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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area: the impact of centrality and peripherality

Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - European Regional Science Association - 2013

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...

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