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"Mit der Einführung der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende hat der Bund die Finanzierung der Leistungen zur Eingliederung in Arbeit für die Leistungsempfänger nach dem SGB II übernommen. Die Verteilung der Haushaltsmittel auf die 439 Leistungsträger in Arbeitsgemeinschaften und optierenden...
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"It is broadly accepted that two aspects regarding the modeling strategy are essential for the accuracy of forecast: a parsimonious model focusing on the important structures, and the quality of prospective information. Here, we establish a Global VAR framework, a technique that considers a...
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explanatory variables a distinction is made between three groups of factors: first, market size and agglomeration features of the …
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"Large regional unemployment disparities are a common feature of the labor market in many countries. This study deals with the question whether regional unemployment disparities in western Germany widen, become narrower or remain constant over time. It examines the hypothesis of convergence for...
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"The advent of the New Economic Geography has spawned a renewed interest in questions of agglomeration. The work … expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical … literature. A localization index and a cluster index are calculated in order to measure the prevalence of agglomeration. Using …
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"Der durchschnittliche Bruttojahreslohn pro Beschäftigtem in einer Region liefert wertvolle Informationen über die regionalen Verdienstmöglichkeiten. Bedingt durch das Meldeverfahren an die Sozialversicherungsträger werden die Einkommen jedoch nicht mit ihrer vollen Höhe erfasst, sondern...
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"The paper shows that the distribution of regional unemployment rates in Germany exhibits strong persistent behaviour. Furthermore, panel unit root tests and autoregressive fixed effects models indicate that regional unemployment rates display conditional rather than unconditional convergence....
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"Economic integration typically goes along with disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring (Feenstra 1998). As horizontal and vertical links between firms become more and more pronounced, value chains within regions are increasingly organized by production and innovation...
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"Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the agglomeration wage differential. One of the open research question … obtained show that the agglomeration wage differential in Germany is smaller than in the US, and that only a minor part of it …
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technological agglomeration slightly reduces the growth rates of start-ups. The same negative, but stronger, effect can be observed …
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