We analyze empirically the impact of urban agglomeration on Italian wages. Using micro-data from the Bank of Italy'sSurvey of Household Income and Wealth for the years 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2002 on more than 22,000 employeesdistributed in 242 randomly drawn local labor markets (30 percent of the...

Wirft man einen Blick auf die Veränderungen der Agrarstrukturen in den letzten Dekaden,so fällt einem unweigerlich die Entwicklung Nordwestdeutschlands auf. Auseinem Gebiet, zum Teil geprägt durch „Ungunsträume“ und Selbstversorgungsstrukturen(Windhorst und Klohn, 1995; Campos, 1992),...

European cities like Rome, Helsinki and Dublin differ from one another by virtue ofregional architectonic peculiarities and individual problems caused by the social andeconomic changes each city is facing. “What they have in common is that theircharacter is determined by the model of the...

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical studies. Main elements of such an explanation are the specific problems of a division of innovative labor. Based on an outline of these issues the concept of a regional innovation...

Local industrial clusters have attracted much attention in the recenteconomic and geographical literature. A huge number of case studies have beenconducted. This paper presents a meta-analysis of the case studies of 159 localindustrial clusters in various countries and industries. Based on an...

A stochastic model of the evolution of the firm population in a regionand industry is developed. This model is used to make predictions about theexpected probability distribution of the firm number in regions and their dynamics.Data on the spatial distribution of firms in Germany is used to...