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Between 2003 and 2005, the German government passed an unprecedented package of labor market reforms, commonly known as the Hartz-reforms. This led to a "labor market miracle" with sharply declining unemployment rates. This paper examines these reforms at the regional level and provides a...
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The financial crisis affected regions in Europe in a different magnitude. This is why we examine whether regions which …
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zeigen, dass eine derartige Regionalpolitik grundsätzlich effektiv – dies jedoch nur bis zu einer bestimmten „maximalen …
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We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth. Being particularly interested in studying the effects ‘at the margin’, we track the relative performance of regions adjacent to both sides of the integration border...
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This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …
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This paper analyzes whether the expansion of regional airports in Germany caused positive spillover effects on the surrounding economies, exploiting the deregulation of the European aviation market as a quasi-experiment. Such potential spillovers are often used as an argument for the substantial...
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Expanding regional eligibility in the access to grants can have important consequences for the performance of firms. We examine a quasi-natural experiment that consisted of a redrawing of administrative areas intended to increase accessibility to European Union (EU) funds using a rich...
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For spatial data with a sufficiently long time dimension, the concept of global cointegration has been recently included in the econometrics research agenda. Global cointegration arises when non-stationary time series are cointegrated both within and between spatial units. In this paper, we...
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prices, equity prices, and interest rates. Uncertainty shocks cause deeper recessions in Continental Europe (except Germany …) than in Anglo-Saxon countries. This pattern is compatible with the view that continental Europe still suffers from …
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individuals within countries using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Using nonlinear …
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