Die kürzlich von ERECO veröffentlichten European Regional Prospects“ zeigen die ökonomischen Perspektiven der europäischen Stadtregionen für den Zeithorizont bis 2006 auf. Treibende Kraft hinter der Wirtschaftsentwicklung sind die marktbestimmten Dienstleistungen. Eine besonders...

"This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...

"Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...

Im innerdeutschen Wettbewerb um Investoren haben die ostdeutschen Bundesländer noch zusätzlich mit der Konkurrenz der östlichen Nachbarstaaten zu kämpfen, die mit niedrigen Lohnkosten und hohen Investitionsanreizen Unternehmen in ihre Regionen locken. Die Positionierung Sachsens im...

"Economic integration typically goes along with disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring (Feenstra 1998). As horizontal and vertical links between firms become more and more pronounced, value chains within regions are increasingly organized by production and innovation...

"How do agglomeration effects influence the demand for labour? To answer this question, approaches on labour demand are linked with an analysis of the classic 'urbanization effect'. We use models for static and for dynamic labour demand to find out, whether agglomerations develop faster or...

Die kürzlich vorgestellten "European Regional Prospects" von ERECO für die Regionen der EU-Länder und der Beitrittskandidaten Polen, Tschechien und Ungarn zeigt für den Zeithorizont bis 2005 die günstigsten Perspektiven für Regionen außerhalb Zentraleuropas. Eine generelle Verlagerung des...

Parr J. B. (2005) Perspectives on the city-region, Regional Studies 39 , 555-566. The significance of the city-region as a key feature of the space economy of a nation has been acknowledged for some time. Recently, however, there has been a spate of interest in the city-region, and the reasons...

"This paper analyses extensively the effects of inter-regional mobility on the earnings of skilled workers. We interact returns to inter-regional migration with employer changes to separate the two effects and find that inter-regional mobility results in positive additional returns as compared...

"How do agglomeration effects influence the demand for labour? To answer this question, approaches on labour demand are linked with an analysis of the classic 'urbanization effect'. We use models for static and for dynamic labour demand to find out, whether agglomerations develop faster or...