The paper sheds light on the impact of local human capital endowments on individual wages in Western Germany. Using … panel data it shows that regional wage differentials are partly attributable to localized human capital externalities … as instrumental variables, the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …

This article reconsiders the empirical evidence on regional human capital externalities using longitudal survey data …

The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany … externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …

The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany … externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …

The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany … externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …

dynamic agglomeration economies in general, and learning externalities in particular, play an important role in explaining …

Services of Germany (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. We find that the wage equation is highly …

Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …

, suggesting that agglomeration costs exceed the benefits from risk sharing. -- Marshallian Externalities ; Labor Pooling …