size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of …

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 …

countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …

ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A …

proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …

In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977 …