In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an "empirical law of economics" - the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional unemployment is -0.1. This holds especially for the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our paper reconsiders...

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

Eine wachsende Zahl von Regionen nutzt derzeit im deutschsprachigen Raum das Label der "Wissensregion", um eigene Stärken und Ziele begrifflich zu fassen. Doch scheinen, abgesehen vom Marketingwert der Bezeichnung, noch kaum konkrete Vorstellungen zu herrschen, welche besonderen Inhalte damit...