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The tertiarisation, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialisation of the economy has left deep scars on cities … structures of cities. Industrialisation, collective wage setting, and the welfare state led to a stark reduction in income … increasing wage differentiation. Moreover, numerous studies on global cities, the dual city, and divided cities have also …
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Popular theories claim that innovation activities should be located in large cities because of more favorable … environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to …
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Wage growth is stronger in larger cities, but this relationship holds exclusively for non-manual workers. Using rich …
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the existing discussions about cities as bulwarks against the global rise of the far right. First, while much scholarly …
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Human capital is a driving factor of innovation and economic growth. Economic prospects of cities depend on high … qualified workers' knowledge and therefore, attracting highly qualified workers plays a fundamental role for cities' prospects … by investigating the determinants of the migration balance of German cities between 2000 and 2010. Furthermore, it …
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This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...
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The population growth of cities in industrialized countries is characterized by striking disparities. While some cities … refers to the question whether labour market conditions or amenities primarily account for the huge differences in cities …' demographic prospects. We investigate the determinants of migration balances of German cities focusing on mobility of workers and …
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Human capital is a driving factor of innovation and economic growth. Economic prospects of cities depend on high … qualified workers' knowledge and therefore, attracting highly qualified workers plays a fundamental role for cities' prospects … by investigating the determinants of the migration balance of German cities between 2000 and 2010. Furthermore, it …
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