resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 ….024 percent. However, the impact is somewhat larger on female than on male employment. The negative employment effect is also …

Germany) have been, in recent years, the subject of various theoretical and empirical studies. Several researchers have shown … suggesting the use of spatial filtering techniques as a substitute for fixed effects in a panel estimation framework. The spatial …

compares two NN methodologies. First, it uses NNs to forecast regional employment in both the former West and East Germany …In this paper, a set of neural network (NN) models is developed to compute short-term forecasts of regional employment … patterns in Germany. NNs are modern statistical tools based on learning algorithms that are able to process large amounts of …

in regional development, and the regional innovation system becomes more and more open-ended. As a nexus of the … product variety and manifold consumption externalities. Much research has addressed the influence of innovation on the tourism … industry development, but only a few studies have focused on the impact of tourism on innovation. This study focusses on the …

framework and a test on innovation data from several European cities. This framework is mainly built on the product life … several firm-specific effects. First, these phases influence innovativeness and thus profit levels, output and employment of …