This paper aims to assess the effects of population aging on economic growth. We adopt the partial-adjustment model to regress the per capita GDP growth rates of 80 countries from 1960 to 2005 against a set of independent variables including the levels and changes in the proportions of the young...

We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the...

We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the...

We suggest an alternative indicator based on the car sales price placed on the Internet for measuring economic inequality among regions. The regional data on car prices in Germany were downloaded from two specialised websites http://www.mobile.de and http://www.autoscout24.de in December 2011....

Der Beitrag gibt einen empirischen Überblick über die Situation der Agglomerationsräume, Metropolen und Metropolregionen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im statistischen Vergleich. Dargestellt und kommentiert werden regionalstatistische Daten und Indikatoren insbesondere zur...

Die Untersuchung geht den räumlichen Unterschieden im Aufkommen von Kreditausfallrisiken der Privathaushalte in deutschen Ballungsräumen nach. Zahlungsschwierigkeiten sind eine gravierende Auswirkung persönlicher Fehlentscheidungen und können auf mangelnde finanzielle Grundkompe-tenzen...

The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city regions has been on the agenda of spatial researchers and housing policymakers for over a decade now. Persistent reurbanization trends are putting increased pressure on...