Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 36,900
Cover Image
The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794180
Cover Image
The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel M. - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816527
Cover Image
The regional distribution of public employment: Theory and evidence
Kessing, Sebastian G.; Strozzi, Chiara - 2012
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282132
Cover Image
Political Rents, Promotion Incentives, and Support for a Non-Democratic Regime
Lazarev, Valery - 2004
This paper analyzes the economic foundations of a non-democratic political regime, where the ruling bureaucracy captures rents through collective control over state property and job assignment. The model developed here yields the equilibrium in the 'political labor market,' where the ruling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369152
Cover Image
On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984591
Cover Image
On the origin of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140922
Cover Image
Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Reunification
Suedekum, Jens - 2004
In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between … 1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we …. By and large and with some exceptions, this conclusion holds both for West Germany and Germany as a whole, as well as for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295418
Cover Image
The regional distribution of public employment: Theory and evidence
Kessing, Sebastian; Strozzi, Chiara - 2016
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521138
Cover Image
Stimulating local public employment: Do general grants work?
Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274623
Cover Image
Explaining the Level of Relative Investment Specialisation: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of EU Regions
Stirböck, Claudia - 2002
This paper analyses the level of relative specialisation in terms of gross fixed capital formation in EU regions. Larger market and regional sizes diminish; a higher unemployment rate, population density, the fact of being a central region, the distance to the economic centre, and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297952