Dieser Arbeitsbericht bietet einen Vergleich der Struktur und Entwicklung der Erwerbstätigkeit zwischen verschiedenen Typen von Landkreisen für die Jahre 1995 bis 2008. Im Fokus stehen Disparitäten zwischen ländlichen und nicht-ländlichen Landkreisen. Es ist unter anderem zu erkennen, dass...

Dieser Arbeitsbericht bietet einen Vergleich der Struktur und Entwicklung der Erwerbstätigkeit zwischen verschiedenen Typen von Landkreisen für die Jahre 1995 bis 2008. Im Fokus stehen Disparitäten zwischen ländlichen und nicht-ländlichen Landkreisen. Es ist unter anderem zu erkennen, dass...

This paper investigates on a marked case of regional inequality concerning the information and communication technology adoption process and the role of subsidies in Italy. There is a consolidated and persistent gap between the industrialized North and the sensibly backward South. Econometric...

We propose a model where imperfect matching between firms and workers on local labor markets leads to spatial agglomeration. We show that the occurrence of spatial agglomeration depends on initial size differences in terms of both number of workers and firms. We analyse the effect of different...

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster...

This paper provides empirical evidence of interregional risk sharing in reunified Germany. The focus is on two related questions: First, to what extent do private institutions and the public sector provide insurance against asymmetric shocks to individual regions? Second, to what extent does the...

China has experienced rapid economic growth and the recent Global Economic Projections 2004 by the World Bank suggest that there is a continuation of Chinese growth of at lest 7 to 8 percent (World Bank, 2003). Nevertheless, on the background of rapid growth came increasing regional disparities....

We investigate the regional disparities in high-skilled foreign employment in Germany. The importance of different factors which attract highly qualified migrants to specific regions and the role of labour-migration policy is analysed. Our results show that labour-market variables as well as the...

The interaction of inequality and growth and the direction of causality in this relationship have been an extensively discussed topic with several questions but without clear answers both in the theoretical and empirical literature. The current paper contributes mainly into the new economic...