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Sources for regional unemployment disparities in Germany : lagged adjustment processes, exogenous shocks or both?

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

, middle and high unemployment regions shows that the development of regional factors would generate a regional convergence …

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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth

Schlitte, Friso - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....

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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...

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Human capital mobility and convergence : a spatial dynamic panel model of the German regions

Kubis, Alexander; Schneider, Lutz - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

might either - in the case of low-skilled migration - accelerate or - in high-skilled case - impede convergence. Due to the … mobility affects convergence via the human capital selectivity of migration. With regard to the endogeneity of the migration … flows and human capital, we apply a dynamic panel data model within the framework of ß-convergence and account for spatial …

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The mysteries of the trade: employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers

Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...

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Agglomeration and regional employment growth

Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"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...

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The determinants of local employment dynamics in Western Germany

Fuchs, Michaela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper studies the impact of the local industrial structure on employment dynamics in Western Germany. Following an approach of Combes/Magnac/Robin (2004) for France, local employment growth is decomposed into internal growth resulting from employment changes in existing plants and into...

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Industrial clusters and economic integration : theoretic concepts and an application to the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg

Litzel, Nicole; Möller, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"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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Agglomeration effects on labour demand

Blien, Uwe; Kirchhof, Kai; Ludewig, Oliver - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"How do agglomeration effects influence the demand for labour? To answer this question, approaches on labour demand are linked with an analysis of the classic 'urbanization effect'. We use models for static and for dynamic labour demand to find out, whether agglomerations develop faster or...

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Disparities, persistence and dynamics of regional unemployment rates in Germany

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

conditional rather than unconditional convergence. Thus, highly persistent unemployment disparities can be regarded as region …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045014