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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and 'the East' - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...

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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth

Schlitte, Friso - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....

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Agglomeration and regional employment growth

Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"The advent of the New Economic Geography has spawned a renewed interest in questions of agglomeration. The work expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical literature. A localization index and a cluster index are...

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Human capital mobility and convergence : a spatial dynamic panel model of the German regions

Kubis, Alexander; Schneider, Lutz - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

might either - in the case of low-skilled migration - accelerate or - in high-skilled case - impede convergence. Due to the … mobility affects convergence via the human capital selectivity of migration. With regard to the endogeneity of the migration … flows and human capital, we apply a dynamic panel data model within the framework of ß-convergence and account for spatial …

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The determinants of local employment dynamics in Western Germany

Fuchs, Michaela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"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...

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Long-term growth determinants of young businesses in Germany : effects of regional concentration and specialisation

Otto, Anne; Fornahl, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"This paper explores how different levels of regional concentration and specialisation affect the long-term growth of young firms. The sample consists of knowledge-intensive and non-knowledge-intensive western German manufacturing firms which were set-up in 1992 and managed to survive 11 years....

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Sources for regional unemployment disparities in Germany : lagged adjustment processes, exogenous shocks or both?

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

, middle and high unemployment regions shows that the development of regional factors would generate a regional convergence …

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Regional patterns and determinants of new firm formation and survival in western Germany

Brixy, Udo; Grotz, Reinhold - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"There is a large body of literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation. In contrast there are few articles on the spatial differences in new firm survival. Using panel data we analyse both items for 74 western German regions over a ten-year period. The positive...

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The mysteries of the trade: employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers

Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"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...

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Unemployment dynamics in West Germany : do districts adjust differently than larger regional units?

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"The results for labour demand shocks at the place of residence for German Federal States and districts according to the model of regional adjustment developed by Blanchard/Katz (1992) are in line with other studies in this field. They suggest that adjustment to region-specific shocks in the...

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