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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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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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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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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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Measurement of flood damage due to climate change by dynamic spatial computable general equilibrium model

Nakajima, Kazunori; Morisugi, Hisayoshi; Morisugi, Masafumi - 2014

To explain economic impacts of flood damage due to climate change over time in Japan, this study develops a dynamic spatial computable general equilibrium model, and measures flood damage costs through some numerical experiments. It is inferred that the frequency and the intensity of flood are...

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Definition and measurement of natural dister damage cost by Ramsey growth model : presented at ERSA Conference Bratislava, Slovakia

Morisugi, Hisayoshi; Morisugi, Masafumi - 2012

This study proposes a consistent definition of natural disaster damage costs, i.e., equivalently, of natural disaster prevention benefits in accordance with general definition of benefits, Willingness to Pay, more concretely, Equivalent Variation, of any policy such as tax reforms,...

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