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Agglomeration of knowledge in the German regional economy

Krenz, Astrid - 2016

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German economy. Our analysis takes individual-level data from the German socioeconomic panel (GSOEP) and combines them with the knowledge information for different jobs that comes from...

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Long-run processes of geographical concentration and dispersion : evidence from Germany

Dauth, Wolfgang; Fuchs, Michaela; Otto, Anne - 2015

Dienstleistungssektor und in den wissensintensiven Branchen in Westdeutschland über einen Zeitraum von 30 Jahren. Wir verwenden detaillierte …

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Long-term processes of regional concentration and dispersion-fuzzy evidence for Western German

Dauth, Wolfgang; Fuchs, Michaela; Otto, Anne - 2010 - Draft version

The description of geographical concentration and the search for its causes is at the focus of many studies. However, by not considering developments over an extended period of time, the majority of the studies mainly examine static relationships. This paper aims at filling this gap. We measure...

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Urban growth in Germany : the impact of localization and urbanization economies

Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009

This study examines the impact of localization and urbanization economies as well as the impact of city size on urban growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to have positive impacts on regional growth, prior...

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Brachert, Matthias; Kubis, Alexander; Titze, Mirko - 2011

Verbundenheit regionaler Wirtschaftsstrukturen auf Basis der Klassifikation der Wirtschaftszweige unzureichend ist. Daher entwickelt … der Wirtschaftszweige als auch auf Basis der Funktion, welche eine Region im Produktionsprozess ausübt, abbildet. Es zeigt … (Unrelated Variety, basierend auf der Klassifikation der Wirtschaftszweige) sind dann vorteilhaft, wenn gleiche Funktionen im …

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Persistence and change of regional industrial activities : the impact of diversification in the German machine tool industry

Fornahl, Dirk; Guenther, Christina - 2008

The paper Investigates stability and change of regional economic activities in the long-run. As the unit of analysis we selected the machine tool industry in West Germany for the years 1953 to 2002. We spot a strong variance in the activities between the different regions. These differences are...

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Agglomeration and regional employment growth

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010

sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten in Westdeutschland in 326 Landkreisen und kreisfreien Städten über den Zeitraum 1989 bis 2006 verwendet …

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Entrepreneurship : The Role of Clusters Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence from Germany

Rocha, Hector O.; Sternberg, Rolf - 2013

This paper is about the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level. Defining entrepreneurship as the creation of new organisations and clusters as a geographically proximate group of interconnected firms and associated institutions in related industries, this paper aims to...

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Entrepreneurial spillovers over space and time

Fossen, Frank M.; Martin, Thorsten - 2016

Entrepreneurship is a local and dynamic phenomenon. We jointly investigate spatial spillovers and time persistence of regional new business formation. Using panel data from all 402 German counties for 1996-2011, we estimate dynamic spatial panel models of business creation in the high-tech and...

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Reinventing the skilled region : human capital externalities and industrial change

Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2009

Bridging the gap between the literatures on industrial change and human capital externalities we investigate the complementarity between aggregate regional education and job turnover. On the level of regional industries in Germany we find strong evidence for such complementarity. Thus, regional...

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