Urban areas tend to have much more productive labor and higher salaries than rural areas, and there are vast differences across urban areas. Areas with high salaries and high productivity tend to have employers that invest in much more research and development than areas with low salaries and...

Mit einem Bevölkerungsanteil von 30% dominieren die zentralen Hauptstadtregionen in der EG; die Bruttowertschöpfung je Einwohner ist jedoch in den Alpenregionen am höchsten. Nur die Alpenregionen und die "Regionen des nördlichen Bogens" erzielen eine überdurchschnittliche...

We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...