Over the last two decades, university education in the EU has undergone a transition from elitist to mass education. Consequently, in 2000 the university student population in the EU numbered some 12.6 million, constituting 5 percent of the population of working age (15 to 64). Italy,...

"This paper studies the impact of the local industrial structure on employment dynamics in Western Germany. Following an approach of Combes/Magnac/Robin (2004) for France, local employment growth is decomposed into internal growth resulting from employment changes in existing plants and into...