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Knowledge-intensive employment growth in the Dutch Randstad and the German Rhine-Ruhr area : the impact of centrality and peripherality : paper prepared for presentation at the 53rd ERSA Congress, Palermo, Italy, August 27-31, 2013

Kronenberg, Kristin; Volgmann, Kati - 2013 - This version: February 28, 2013

This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...

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Urban Growth in Germany – The Impact of Localization and Urbanization Economies

Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009

This study examines the impact of localization and urbanization economies as well as the impact of city size on urban growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to have positive impacts on regional growth, prior...

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Urban growth in Germany : the impact of localization and urbanization economies

Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009

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Decomposing regional efficiency

Schaffer, Axel; Simar, Léopold; Rauland, Jan - 2010

analysis, this study identifies and decomposes the efficiency of 439 German regions in using infrastructure and human capital …

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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How political, spatial, and administrative changes shape the local level : evidence from municipalities

Dörr, Luisa - 2022

Luisa Dörr prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in February 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of three distinct empirical essays...

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Does highway access influence local employment? : evidence from German municipalities

Dörr, Luisa; Gäbler, Stefanie - 2022

We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the "Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show...

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Public infrastructure and regional resilience : evidence from the 1918 Spanish flu in Germany

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Can public infrastructure help regions to mitigate large shocks? We examine how hospital infrastructure contributes to … hospital infrastructure. In contrast, rural areas without adequate infrastructure absorb shocks poorly, and voters punish the … governing parties in the next elections. We conclude that public infrastructure can mitigate large external shocks, especially …

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Economic effects of transportation infrastructure quantity and quality : a study of German counties

Gaus, Dennis; Link, Heike - 2020

In this paper, we analyze the impact of transportation infrastructure quantity and quality on regional economic … infrastructure both locally and supra-regionally. We furthermore provide evidence for the claim that insufficient maintenance and low … infrastructure conditions significantly slow economic growth through a negative correlation between GDP and the quality grade of …

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Gigabit access : Germany lags behind in international comparison but demand is low

Girard, Yann; Mattes, Anselm; Michelsen, Claus - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 25/26, pp. 219-229

infrastructure by 2025, the government should aim for a well-balanced combination of regulatory incentives for private sector …

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