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A simple theory of industry location and residence choice
Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of … of production which seeks to obtain the highest possible economic return. Our theory comprehends applications to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608325
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Economic integration, wage policies and social policies
Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001749986
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Local employment growth in West Germany : a dynamic panel approach
Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor);  … - 2005
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003147314
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Local economic structure and industry development in Germany, 1993 - 2001
Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between … Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and find very similar results for Germany. Afterwards we formulate an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452347
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Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks
Braun, Sebastian; Kramer, Anica; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2017
, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737510
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The worth of cities in Germany
Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023
and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278127
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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium : two literatures and their interrelations
Halfdanarson, Benedikt (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716532
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Trade and location with land as a productive factor
Pflüger, Michael (contributor);  … - 2008
received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We set up a simple monopolistic competition model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759291
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On pitchforks and tomahawks
Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007
The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper tier preferences. This small generalization suffices to change these stark implications. For a wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652668
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On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration
Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor) - 2008
A prominent feature of economic geography in America is the positive correlation amongst local incomes, housing costs and city population. This paper embeds a "black box" agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium model of local wages, rents and population to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737642