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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic … scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide additional information on the spatial aspect of convergence. Spatial … econometric methods are used to investigate regional convergence in West Germany. The results indicate that spatial interaction is …

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Regional convergence in the European Union (1985 - 1999): A spatial dynamic panel analysis

Badinger, Harald; Müller, Werner G.; Tondl, Gabriele - 2002

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So … convergence of 6.9 per cent and a capital elasticity of 0.43. …

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Spatial dependence of regional unemployment in the European Union

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

The findings of recent studies on adjustment processes suggest that regional labour markets in the EU and the US differ significantly. Low wage flexibility and limited labour mobility in European countries involve persistent unemployment differentials across regions. However, the spatial...

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The geography and channels of diffusion at the world's technology frontier

Keller, Wolfgang - 2001

Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global … spillovers favor convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of …

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Modelling the fiscal effects of aid: An impulse response approach for Ghana

Morrissey, Oliver; Osei, Robert; Lloyd, Tim - 2002

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result aid has the potential to affect budgetary behaviour. Although the (albeit limited) aid-growth literature has addressed the effect of aid on policy, it has tended to neglect the effect of aid on...

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Dynamic Spatial Modelling of Regional Convergence Processes

Lauridsen, Jørgen; Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2004

Econometric analysis of convergence processes across countries or regions usually refers to a transition period between … issue of conditional income and productivity convergence across labour market regions in unified Germany. …

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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - 2004

We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...

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Austrian border regions and eastern integration: A low competitiveness - high growth paradoxon

Mayerhofer, Peter - 2002

Many regions on the EU Eastern borders have developed favourably after the opening up of the border and the implementation of association agreements with the CEECs. This was often seen as a positive sign for the further perspectives of these regions after EU enlargement. In this paper we take a...

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Openness and urban concentration in Europe, 1870-1990

Nitsch, Volker - 2001

This paper provides a new attempt to examine the relationship between an economy's exposure to foreign trade and its degree of urban concentration. In contrast to previous work, which is often based on rich cross-country data sets, the analysis is focused exclusively on European countries,...

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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

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