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New insights into the development of regional unemployment disparities : conference paper

Werner, Daniel - 2014 - This version: 27th February 2014, Preliminary

Large regional unemployment disparities are a common feature of the labor market in many countries. This study deals … with the question whether regional unemployment disparities in western Germany widen, become narrower or remain constant … over time. It examines the hypothesis of convergence for regional unemployment rates of western German Federal States and …

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The persistent effects of regional policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet ; conference paper

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2014 - Preliminary version

In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the contemporaneous and persistent effects of regional policy. We apply a quasi-experimental identification strategy exploiting the fact that municipalities in the West-German Zonenrandgebiet (ZRG) were eligible for substantial regional transfers...

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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment : conference paper

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete, March 1, 2013

We study environmental pollution in an economic geography framework with two cities, where pollution arises from commuting within cities, goods transport between cities, production of manufacturing and agricultural goods, and residential energy use. We find that city size has an ambiguous effect...

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Spillover effects in local labor markets : evidence from mass layoffs ; conference paper

Gathmann, Christina; Helm, Ines; Schönberg, Uta - 2014 - First version: March 1, 2014

Governments are often willing to subsidize firms on the verge of bankruptcy. The main economic rationale behind these interventions is that a plant closure would not only harm the workers employed in that plant, but create a domino effect on the regional economy as a whole. Yet, little is still...

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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...

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Optimal taxation under regional inequality : conference paper

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Malte - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete

Regional productivity differences are large and provide scope for productivity-enhancing inter-regional labor mobility. Using an optimal taxation framework that combines an intensive labor supply margin with an extensive, productivity- enhancing migration margin, we explore the implications of...

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Continuous logit polycentric city model : conference paper

Wrede, Matthias - 2014 - This version: October 2013

This paper analyzes a closed linear polycentric city with homogenous households who probabilistically select their workplace and residence locations. The study utilizes a continuous logit model to describe household location choices. In contrast to the classic urban model with deterministic...

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City silhouette, world climate : conference paper

Dascher, Kristof - 2014

A country's urban silhouettes prophesy its future climate policy, or so this paper argues. The more its city silhouettes are skewed to the periphery, the more likely a country is to implement the carbon tax. This is why the effect of a country's urban form on greenhouse gas emissions -- a bone...

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Trade, integration and interregional inequality : conference paper

Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 20, 2013

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs and where we can derive an...

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Warping space : high-speed rail and returns to scale in local labor markets ; conference paper

Heuermann, Daniel F.; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2014 - February 2014

Local returns to scale in the labor market have been notoriously difficult to disentangle from increasing returns in the product market and from the spatial sorting of workers and firms as a source for regional variation in productivity. In this paper we use the introduction of high-speed rail...

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