Erhebliche regionale Disparitäten werden in Deutschland von einer Abwanderung aus strukturschwachen Regionen begleitet. Theoretische Modelle liefern keine eindeutigen Aussagen über die Effekte der Wanderung. Empirische Befunde zeigen dagegen, dass die Mobilität zu einem Abbau der Unterschiede...

The problem of providing the national agricultural sector with labor force has increased with the intensification of the process of migration of the rural population to cities or abroad. As a result, this exodus considerably decreased the supply of labor in the given sector, creating a constant...

The negative impact of climatic order (critical insufficiency of atmospheric precipitation) from 2022, as well as the military conflict in Ukraine, continue to exert extraordinary pressure on the economic efficiency of the agricultural sector of the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, the...

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...

This paper provides novel evidence on the regional impact of international migration on native employment and wages in Australia, using unique administrative individual-level panel data covering all residents from 2011 to 2018. Employing a differences-in-differences estimation strategy and a...

Demographic change brings complex challenges to the economic, social, and environmental systems of cities, with its asymmetric, overlapping, and compounded impacts across people and places. This paper analyses the main demographic trends and challenges in cities across OECD countries, with a...

We analyze the impacts of three major unexpected border regime changes that occurred during the course of 20th century on population growth along the Austrian-Czech border. Using historical municipal-level census data reaching back to 1880, we find no effects of the dissolution of the...

Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and international trade on the skill composition of occupations, the paper employs a task-based approach to analyze structural changes in regional employment within a rich...

Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico's private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the underlying factors behind salary dispersion underwent significant shifts. To uncover these changes, we analyze an employer-employee dataset comprising the near-universe of Mexico's...

The negative impact of climatic order (critical insufficiency of atmospheric precipitation) from 2022, as well as the military conflict in Ukraine, continue to exert extraordinary pressure on the economic efficiency of the agricultural sector of the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, the...