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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities : Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2021
size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of …
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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 …
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Performance Pay and Prior Learning : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Manthei, Kathrin - 2018
We run two field experiments within a large retail chain showing that the effectiveness of performance pay crucially hinges on prior job experience. Introducing sales-based performance pay for district- and later for store-managers, we find negligible average treatment effects. Based on surveys...
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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta - 2012
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...
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Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs
Suedekum, Jens - 2006
In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977 …
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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China
Du, Rui - 2018
Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...
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The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv
Modai-Snir, Tal - 2017
Many studies of urban and neighbourhood change investigate changes in the relative positions of neighbourhoods within an urban region, without looking at the underlying processes. Often, changes in socio-spatial structures reflect intensifying socio-spatial divisions caused by both increasing...
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Matching in Cities
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2019
unchanged, and equalize within-city assortative matching geographical wage inequality in Germany would decrease significantly …-city assortative matching observed between 1985 and 2014 increased aggregate labor earnings in Germany by 2.1%, or 31.32 billion euros …
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Bobos in Paradise : Urban Politics and the New Economy
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2015
This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...
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