Auch über die gegenwärtig stark diskutierte Problematik der Finanzierung der Alterssicherung hinaus ist die anstehende demographische Entwicklung von erheblicher gesamtwirtschaftlicher Bedeutung. Naturgemäß ist vor allem der Arbeitsmarkt betroffen, aber die aus dem demographischen Wandel...

Local productivity externalities play an important role in the recent literature on economic geography and regional growth. But apart from case studies there is only weak empirical evidence. Using a simple theoretic framework the paper derives two empirical implications of those externalities...

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...