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The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the … regime. The gap in population has remained remarkably sharp in space and is growing. …
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Residential satisfaction depends on housing and neighborhood conditions in addition to housing cost affordability. To determine the relative importance of these factors, their average effect is usually estimated using sample data, eventually split in sub-samples in order to represent social...
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The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the … regime. The skill composition of these migrants shows a strong positive selection. The gap in population has remained …
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located in rural areas compared with those in urban agglomerations. Despite many recent attempts to measure digitization … explicit spatial perspective, i.e. comparing urban with rural areas. Using web-scraping data for a representative sample of 345 … twice as likely to use webpages than those located in rural areas. Our county-level analysis shows that a high population …
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The New Economic Geography predicts a positive effect of market access on wages, as represented by the wage equation. Several studies provide empirical evidence in favor of the wage equation. However, a key problem is the endogeneity of market access: it is challenging to identify the causal...
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In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by...
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Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...
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type. As a result of the delimitation, 57.2 % of the German population live in rural areas, which sum up for 91.3 % of the …In this Working Paper we develop a method to delimit and typologize rural areas in Germany as a research tool to … dimension refers to rurality, which enables us to delimit rural areas and to differentiate them into fairly rural and very rural …
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Diese Arbeit erstellt ein umfassendes Bild der regionalen Ungleichheit in Deutschland in einer Vielzahl von Größen. Ziel ist es, eine umfassende Sichtweise auf die Komplexität räumlicher Disparitäten zu entwickeln. Neben der wirtschaftlichen Perspektive sind Aspekte der Daseinsvorsorge,...
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This paper analyzes determinants for regional differences in German unemployment rates. We specify a spatial panel model to avoid biased and inefficient estimates due to spatial dependence. Additionally, we control for temporal dynamics in the data. Our study covers the whole of Germany as well...
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