Die Bauwirtschaft wird mehr und mehr zur Stütze der Konjunktur in Deutschland. Für die kommenden beiden Jahre weist die Bauvolumenrechnung des DIW Berlin auf eine reale Ausweitung der Bauleistungen um jeweils rund drei Prozent hin. In nominaler Rechnung dürften die Umsätze des Baugewerbes...

Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...

Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon coun-tries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist...

Using panel data on European regions and applying Analysis of Covariance, our study provides an empirical assessment of the relative importance of national, regional and spatial factors for explaining variations of productivity. Our analysis shows that initial economic conditions or...