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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography: Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - CESifo - 2000

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the “old” border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …

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The effect of market access on the labor market: Evidence from German reunification

Zierahn, Ulrich - 2012

access shock due to reunification was accompanied by a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany … shock due to the increase in market access and a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany. …

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2003

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a...

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2003

This paper uses a two country trade and geography model of monopolistic competition to study the effects of wage policies and social policies on the location of industry. It is first shown that a union wage push in one of two otherwise identical countries induces a relocation of firms which...

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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition

Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...

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Globalization, integration and regional specialization

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2000

integration (such as the new economic geography, urbanization economics, and the theory of comparative advantages), surveys the …

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European integration and the case for compensatory regional policy

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2002

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing interregional competition and affecting the interregional division of labor. From a theoretical standpoint, rising specialization and polarization of European regions may result from...

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Border effects in passenger air traffic

Klodt, Henning - 2003

National borders substantially matter in passenger air traffic. Empirical estimates based upon a new data set on domestic and international departures from German airports indicate that the German border reduces air traffic activity by a factor of four to five. This result adds a further piece...

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Disproportionality measures of concentration, specialization, and polarization

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2006

The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the...

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Fiscal competition, convergence and agglomeration

Fenge, Robert; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Wrede, Matthias - 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal competition through infrastructure in a New Economic Geography framework. It is shown that regional competition leads to convergence if the trade costs are high but induces divergence if trade cost have fallen below a certain value. Moreover, fiscal...

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