In dem Beitrag wird das Publikations- und Zitationsverhalten von Wirtschaftsgeographen und Regionalökonomen verglichen. Basierend auf einem einzigartigen Datensatz und bewusst beschränkt auf Autoren aus dem deutschsprachigen Bereich, belegt die empirische Analyse mehr Parallelen zwischen...

"Themes of the paper are differences in unemployment rates between East and West Germany and the spatial differentiation in the East. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is still a strong division between the economies and labour markets of Eastern and Western Germany. In the last...

"The paper analyses the directions of inter-regional migration in Poland in the years 1995-2002 and points out some major factors that cause the migration. The analyses indicate the voivodships with the largest net migration flows (Mazowieckie, Pomorskie) are characterized by high relative GDP...

"Themes of the paper are differences in unemployment rates between East and West Germany and the spatial differentiation in the East. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is still a strong division between the economies and labour markets of Eastern and Western Germany. In the last...

Die Neugründung und der Ausbau von Hochschulen gehören zu dem gängigen Instrumenten der regionalen Strukturpolitik. Welche Auswirkungen aber hat die Existenz einer Hochschule in ökonomischer Hinsicht tatsächlich für eine Region? Das vorliegende Paper analysiert und vergleicht die...

Die EU-Strukturfondsförderung ist mit Finanzmitteln von rund 2 Mrd. Euro in den Jahren 2000 bis 2006 ein tragender Baustein der Strukturpolitik in Nordrhein-Westfalen gewesen. Dies wird aller Voraussicht nach auch so bleiben, denn die für die künftige Förderperiode 2007 bis 2012 vorgesehenen...

"Economic integration typically goes along with disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring (Feenstra 1998). As horizontal and vertical links between firms become more and more pronounced, value chains within regions are increasingly organized by production and innovation...

"We forecast unemployment for the 176 German labour-market districts on a monthly basis. Because of their small size, strong spatial interdependencies exist between these regional units. To account for these as well as for the heterogeneity in the regional development over time, we apply...

"Of the typically cited agglomeration advantages labor market pooling receives strong empirical support - yet remains under-explored theoretically. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and...