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discontinuity of per-capita GDP growth partitions Austria's regions into two groups. Clear evidence of discontinuity (a “take … Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia there is instead no evidence of structural break in their growth …) but have moderate effects on the growth of subsequent years. Regional (per-capita) inequality is also evaluated using …
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new border between East and West Germany experienced a substantial decline in population growth relative to other West …
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new border between East and West Germany experienced a substantial decline in population growth relative to other West …
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The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...
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-half of the growth in trade over the period 1999-2003 and are therefore a major driving force of the EU Single Market. …
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Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of … low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a …. This hypothesis and its counterpart based on growth in elite jobs are tested econometrically for the British case with …
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This chapter discusses whether and how 'new quantitative trade models' (NQTMs) can be fruitfully applied to quantify the welfare effects of trade liberalization, thus shedding light on the trade-related effects of further European integration. On the one hand, it argues that NQTMs have indeed...
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To analyze the mutually dependent relationship between local economic performance and the demand for and supply of transport services, we employ the structural panel VAR method that is popular in the macroeconomic literature, but which has not previously been applied to the modeling of...
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variables for wartime population growth rate, I find that an exogenous increase in municipality's population had a positive … effect on later population growth, industrialization and real wages. These findings are consistent with the presence of …
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A central prediction of a large class of theoretical models is that industry location is not necessarily uniquely determined by fundamentals. In these models, historical accident or expectations determine which of several steady-state locations is selected. Despite the theoretical prominence of...
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