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Using data from the longitudinal Labor Market Monitor for the New German States we provide a portrait of East-West commuters in the first year after unification and evaluate various hypotheses to explain the phenomenon. Commuters may be driven by the search for higher wages in the west or by...
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In November 1991, the Commission of the European Communities commissioned the Institut für Weltwirtschaft to carry out a report on ‘Taxation in Border Regions’. This study is a revised version of the report, which was submitted in 1993. The purpose of this study is to analyse the present...
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The paper proposes an econometric approach for quantifying jointly the geographical scope of commuting as well as the various forms of agglomeration economies originating from metropolitan centers. Adopting an urban economics perspective, and using land prices to measure their aggregate effects,...
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A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...
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Theoretische Überlegungen und empirische Analysen auf Basis einer Befragung von 35 Ausbildungsbetrieben in Bayern …
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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...
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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...
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Schlagworten der Deregulierung, Entbürokratisierung und Kommunalisierung, ist in Bayern die Landes- und Regionalplanung wieder in … Landesentwicklungsprogramms (LEP) Bayern hat darüber hinaus die Schaffung gleichwertiger Lebensverhältnisse, die Herausforderungen durch den … glaubwürdige und erfolgreiche Raumordnung in Bayern. Grundlage dieser Ausführungen sind die Überlegungen und Diskussionen der im …
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Gegenstand des Sammelbandes ist die Gesundheitswirtschaft aus regionaler Perspektive. Nach theoretischen Überlegungen zu den Besonderheiten des Gesundheitsmarktes und der Lokalisierung gesundheitswirtschaftlicher Aktivitäten werden die räumliche Konzentration und Entwicklung der...
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In seinem Kommentar setzt sich Dieter Dziadkowski mit dem Vorschlag zum »Bayern-Tarif«, den Möglichkeiten zur …
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