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This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …
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We investigate the effects of job-specific knowledge for individual labor earnings of workers in the German economy …. The results indicate a positive effect for earnings stemming in particular from high-knowledge in the areas of sales and … concentrated in just a few places whereas workers with high-knowledge in law and government and administration and management are …
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This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison between the neighbouring countries we firstly replicate the study of Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and...
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This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison between the neighbouring countries we firstly replicate the study of Combes (2000) on local employment growth in France and...
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of these effects is due to localized knowledge flows, the closeness to markets, but also due to the diversity of services …
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The paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the relative importance of economic and amenity-related location factors for attracting talents or members of the creative class. While Florida highlights the role of amenities, openness, and tolerance, others instead emphasize the role of...
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This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
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