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Job hopping and economic agglomeration in Germany

Fuchs, Michaela - 2012

This paper investigates whether labor mobility varies with the degree of agglomeration and, if so, how the differences … market, one of Marshall's famous three sources of agglomeration economies. Only a small number of studies have so far … to the still sparse literature on the effect of both urban and industrial agglomeration on labor market pooling. Taking …

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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

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How important are plant and regional characteristics for labor demand? : plant-level evidence for Germany

Brixy, Udo; Fuchs, Michaela - 2010

Empirical research on agglomeration and regional economic growth puts high emphasis on the impact of specialization …

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The pre-exit performance of German plants : how long is the "shadow of death"?

Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014 - Preliminary version

This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be regarded as casting a 'Shadow of Death' on their final leaving the market. This aspect is of high relevance for politicians and other decision-makers, because by knowing more about...

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Mortality risk reduction benefit measurement by overlapping generations model : presented at ERSA Conference, Palermo, Italy

Morisugi, Hisayoshi; Sakamoto, Naoki - 2013

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Willingness to pay for mortality risk reduction and environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis

Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi; Ohno, Eiji - 2013

Mortality risk due to water pollution is one of serious problems especially for Asian developing countries. The timing to carry out a policy or project against such a problem is typical debate of Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. With survey data sets in Laos and Vietnam to ask citizens'...

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General equilibrium approach consistent with travel cost method for economic evaluation of Beach erosion by climate change

Nakajima, Kazunori; Sakamoto, Naoki - 2013

Numerous attempts have been made to evaluate economic impacts by climate change, and the evaluation method can be classified into two approaches. One is a partial equilibrium approach and the other is a general equilibrium approach. The former method includes a travel cost method (TCM) and a...

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Measurement of use and non-use values of Shirakami Mountain Range by using CVM consistent with TCM

Ohno, Eiji; Mori, Ryuta; Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi - 2013

In this study, we have constructed a valuation model based on the CVM consistent with the TCM, in order to measure the use and the non-use values of environmental goods consistently. And the practicality of our model has been examined, by applying this model to measurement of environmental...

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Measurement of use value and non-use value of environmental quality consistent with general equilibrium approach

Sakamoto, Naoki; Nakajima, Kazunori - 2014

This paper proposes the consistent method with general equilibrium models to measure use value and non-use value of large-scale change in environmental quality. First, we develop a general equilibrium model that parameters of the utility function with environmental quality as a dependent...

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Economic evaluation of small hydroelectric generation project which aims to both global warming adaptation and regional economic revitalization

Ohno, Eiji; Mori, Ryuta; Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi - 2014

Based on the international agreements after the Kyoto Protocol, some projects to reduce the greenhouse gas emission have been promoted even in Japan. Therefore, policies such as various regulations and introduction of the environmental tax have been discussed, so people will be asked for big...

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