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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties … during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the … Eastern and Western part of the country are still apparent. -- Regional convergence ; distribution dynamics ; nonparametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846988