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Industrial clusters as source of prospering regions? : economic structure and regional performance 1996-2005
Kubis, Alexander; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2010
within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209009
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Regional Population-Employment Dynamics across Different Sectors of the Economy
de Graaff, Thomas; van Oort, Frank G.; Florax, Raymond … - 2011
An important subset of the literature on agglomeration externalities hypothesizes thatintrasectoral and intersectoral relations are endogenously determined in models of localand regional economic growth. Remarkably, structural adjustment models describing thespatio-temporal dynamics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326283
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Regional population-employment dynamics across different sectors of the economy
Graaff, Thomas de; Oort, Frank van; Florax, Raymond J. G. M. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720751
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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348449
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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350823
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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation ; conference paper
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014
In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487251
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Does regional economic growth depend on proximity to urban centres?
Ahrend, Rudiger; Schumann, Abel - 2014
This paper analyses the spatial patterns of regional economic growth in Europe over the 1995 to 2010 period. It finds that regions, which contain large urban agglomerations, have been growing significantly faster than those that do not. Furthermore, proximity to large urban agglomerations has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430661
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Local employment growth in West Germany : a dynamic panel approach
Blien, Uwe (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor);  … - 2005
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003147314
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Local Employment Growth in West Germany : A Dynamic Panel Approach
Blien, Uwe; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, Katja - 2021
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318319
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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation
Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2012
In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581548