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estimate bandwidth demand in the UK and Flanders in Belgium, too. The comparison of the results of the demand forecast in … regions. The forecasts of bandwidth demand in Germany, the UK and Flanders in Belgium and conclusions are presented in chapter … bandwidth demand forecasts in Germany, the UK and Flanders and the impact the difference between user profiles and household …
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Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities of regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing...
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This research project ranks German regions with help of interregional migration data instead of gross domestic product, household incomes, unemployment or quality of life estimates. Therefore we estimate regional utility differentials for German states and planning regions following the approach...
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Mobility as a factor of labour is- especially in this stage of economic globalization - a positive aspect that permits the suitability of human capital with regard to the remaining productive factors and the promotion of competitiveness. However, it is also an element that can determine the...
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This paper follows the industry employment histories of all individuals at some point affiliated with the declining German and dismantling Swedish shipbuilding industries 1970-2000. We analyse the situation of the individual workers leaving shipbuilding through investigating to what extent they...
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We find that nearly 60 percent of the highly educated individuals in natural science, technology and manufacturing and health and medicine don't stay in their region of education and they have an average income that is higher than those that stay. In this paper we explore the relocation pattern...
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In the process of European integration, regions close to a border are especially affected by labour market liberalisation. Using data from the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and the employment register (BeH) for the period before and after the opening of the border (1980-2001) I shed light on...
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Although the literature on industrial clusters and districts emphasizes the role of labor mobility in the diffusion of innovation and tacit knowledge, relatively little academic effort supported by strong empirical evidences has been made in order to reveal the association between labor mobility...
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This paper investigates the spatial connotations of job search methods of unemployed people, and in particular whether search methods lead to local vis-à-vis non-local jobs. The data set used is the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), a longitudinal survey collecting yearly interviews for...
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