Seit 20 Jahren informieren wir in jeder Ausgabe von „ifo Dresden berichtet“ unter der Überschrift „Daten und Prognosen“ über die aktuelle ostdeutsche und sächsische Konjunktur- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung. In dieser Zeit hat sich viel getan – strukturell, institutionell und mit...

Seit 20 Jahren informieren wir in jeder Ausgabe von „ifo Dresden berichtet“ unter der Überschrift „Daten und Prognosen“ über die aktuelle ostdeutsche und sächsische Konjunktur- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung. In dieser Zeit hat sich viel getan – strukturell, institutionell und mit...

Schools are essential in forming human capital and in improving the long-term health of the economy. They are also heavily reliant on state and local funds, which were severely depleted during the Great Recession. To alleviate some of the strain on local budgets, the federal government passed...

Schools play a crucial role in human capital development, and were one of the many elements of government adversely affected by the Great Recession. Using a rich panel data set of New York State school districts and a trend-shift analysis, we examine how the funding and expenditure dynamics of...

One of the most important drawbacks of the existing literature on convergence is that it largely ignores the effect of aggregate fluctuations on the evolution of income disparities. To the extent that regional income disparities follow a distinct cyclical pattern in the short-run, moving either...

The analysis of synchronization among regional or national business cycles has recently been attracting a growing interest within the economic literature. Far less attention has instead been devoted to a closely related issue: given a certain level of synchronization, some economies might be...

Schools are essential in forming human capital and in improving the long-term health of the economy. They are also heavily reliant on state and local funds, which were severely depleted during the Great Recession. To alleviate some of the strain on local budgets, the federal government passed...