"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...

This thesis examines how tourists use public transport at destinations. Using Munich as a case study it was found that the majority of tourists used public transport either as the main mode or in combination with other modes for travelling within and around the city. Several factors influence...

This chapter highlights the success of entrepreneurship policy in one of the most innovative Region in Europe: Bavaria. With the beginning of the early 1990's, Bavaria strongly followed an entrepreneurship policy which is called "Between Laptop and Lederhosen". This trade-off describes...

In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...

Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...