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Varying youth cohort effects on regional labour market outcomes in Germany
Graaff, Thomas de; Ozgen, Ceren; Roth, Duncan - 2018
We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947720
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The creative class, bohemians and local labor market performance : a micro-data panel study for Germany 1975-2004
Möller, Joachim; Tubadji, Annie - 2008
indicated by employment growth or an increasing wage bill. -- Culture ; Regional Development ; Bohemians ; Creative Class …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003838649
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Demand volatility and the lag between the growth of temporary and permanent employment
Jin, Sainan (contributor); Ono, Yukako (contributor);  … - 2007
The growth rate of temporary help service employment is often considered to be a leading business cycle indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679755
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The impact of regional and demographic factors on the efficiency of German savings banks
Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda - 2009
This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on technical, cost, scale and revenue efficiency of German savings banks in 2001‐2005. Taking into account growing regional disparities in economic wealth and population size, it differentiates between declining and growing regions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941228
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Regional effects of terrorism on tourism : evidence from three Mediterranean countries
Drakos, Kōnstantinos; Kutan, Ali Mustafa - 2001
A consumer-choice model developed by Enders, Sandler and Parise (1992) is utilized to study the regional effects of terrorism on competitors' market shares in tourism sector where involved countries enjoy significant tourism activities but are subject to high frequency of terrorist attacks. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519056
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Regional inflation convergence in Turkey
Duran, Hasan Engin - 2015
The aim of the present article is to analyze the convergence of regional inflation rates in Turkey from 2004 to 2015 by adopting a distribution dynamics approach, namely discrete time Markovian chains. Convergence across regional inflation rates is politically a crucial matter for two reasons....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284224
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Using state level employment thresholds to explain Okun’s Law
Herzog, Ryan W. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-26
determining changes in Okun’s Law. We test for asymmetries in Okun’s Law controlling for changes in industry employment. We find … changes in output on unemployment are least sensitive for states with relatively large employment within government …, construction, and natural resources sectors and lower employment levels in financial, professional and business services and …
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Does administrative status matter for urban growth? : evidence from present and former county capitals in East Germany
Heider, Bastian; Kauffmann, Albrecht; Rosenfeld, Martin … - 2016 - (This version: October 2016)
Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547143
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Skills substitutability and technological progress : U.S. states 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509429
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Borders matter! : regional integration in Europe and North America
Blum, Ulrich - 2001 - Status 24.9.2001
We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structures where data allows to evaluate the level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This allows us to address to effects external to the...
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