. For this purpose, we categorize regions by their GDP per capita growth in the resistance and recovery phase and then … recovery capacity. In addition, we observe a catch-up effect of regions with at least either an above-average resistance or … recovery compared to regions with both weak resistance and slow recovery. However, we do not find a substantial reorientation …

West of Germany. …

Regions in Germany are facing an intensifying structural change towards the knowledge economy which is affecting … and increase in spatial disparities. The question arises how this structural change affects the territory of Germany …

and West Germany. In this paper I focus on the differences in new German manufacturing plants' location choices across the … plant to locate by 4 percent in overall Germany, by 7.6 percent among East German regions and by 26.5 percent in particular … in East Germany by 8.3 percent in particular for large plants. Policy implications emerge that address in particular the …

This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock …, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census … data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a persistent effect on the distribution of population within local labor …

This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock …, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census … data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a persistent effect on the distribution of population within local labor …

five largest cities in western Germany in the years 1989 to 2006. In this context, the strength of these relations is …