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The agglomeration of industries has received much interest both in empirical and theoretical work in recent time. Especially in Germany politicians became inspired by the notion of high-technology industry clusters and German regional policy has seen a wave of initiatives aiming at the formation...
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In diesem Beitrag werden aus der Sicht verschiedener ökonomischer Theorien die Rolle von IuK-Tech-nologien für die Globalisierung und die Frage diskutiert, wie Globalisierung und IuK-Technologien den Strukturwandel, das Wirtschaftswachstum und die nationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit beeinflussen....
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Private investment subsidies are a key instrument for regional policy making to foster the economic development in lagging regions. In this paper, we analyze their effect on labor productivity growth for German labor market regions for the period from 1994 to 2006. A spatially augmented...
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In this contribution the spatial concentration of economic activities in Germany is investigated in 1998. Our examination includes additional to the industrial sectors, the agricultural and service sectors in contrast to all past analyses that solely looked at industrial sectors. To measure...
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Die Arbeit untersucht die kausale Beziehung zwischen regionalen Arbeitsmarktvariablen und internen Migrationsstömen für deutsche Bundesländer zwischen 1991–2006. Die Autoren verwenden ein VAR Modell mit Paneldaten zur Identifikation der Feedback Effekte zwischen den Variablen und zur...
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Im Gegensatz zum Finanzierungsbedarf der EU-Osterweiterung sind die realwirtschaftlichen Vor- und Nachteile empirisch nur schwer zu bestimmen. In diesem Beitrag stellen Dr. Björn Alecke und Dr. Gerhard Untiedt, Gesellschaft für Finanz- und Regionalanalysen (GEFRA), Münster, die Ergebnisse der...
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This paper gives a selective survey of different economic theories in order to discuss the role which IT plays for globalisation and how globalisation and technological progress in the IT-sector influences structural change, economic growth and national competitiveness. The decline in trade...
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This paper provides a critical analysis of the widespread claim in economic policy of promoting ‚clus-ters’. Starting from the vague concept of clusters as promoted by PORTER at first it is investigated, if clus-ters really exist and if their existence exerts any benefits to regional...
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