Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...

Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...

Eine neue, umfassende Untersuchung des ifo Instituts Dresden analysiert mit theoretisch fundierten Indikatoren und mit einer Investorenbefragung die Standortbedingungen in Sachsen, Polen und Tschechien. Auf der Basis der Aussagen der Außenhandels- und Integrationstheorie werden hieraus...

Eine neue, umfassende Untersuchung des ifo Instituts Dresden analysiert mit theoretisch fundierten Indikatoren und mit einer Investorenbefragung die Standortbedingungen in Sachsen, Polen und Tschechien. Auf der Basis der Aussagen der Außenhandels- und Integrationstheorie werden hieraus...

Sachsen ist von der Osterweiterung im besonderen Maße betroffen. Es ist das einzige deutsche Bundesland, das an zwei Beitrittsländer. Polen und die Tschechische Republik grenzt, und es hat mit rund 570 km die längste Grenze zu den Beitrittsländern. Das Sächsische Staatsministerium für...

It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing...

This paper presents new evidence on urbanization using sub-county data for the United States from 1880-2000 and municipality data for Brazil from 1970-2000. We show that the two central stylized features of population growth for cities - Gibrat's Law and a stable population distribution - are...

Are recessions drivers of structural change? Here we investigate the resilience of cities, and argue that a re-allocation of labour between industrial sectors in times of crisis induces an acceleration in structural change. Using UK data, we find that cities experienced a sharp increase in...

Maharashtra with a geographical area of 9.4% of India constitutes of about 10.2% of the total workers of the country. Employment in the state has changed remarkably from 1961 to 2001with greater employment being generated by the non-agricultural activities than the agricultural and allied...

This paper analyzes job creation when the Korean economy transitioned to a knowledge economy from the 1990s to the 2010s. During this period, the ratio of service to manufacturing jobs increased, knowledge intensive industries grew, and job creation became geographically concentrated around...