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Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - 2014

Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces relocation incentives through higher taxes or lower transfers. Combining an intensive labor supply margin with an extensive, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how...

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Optimal Taxation Under Regional Inequality

Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2015

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A simple, analytically solvable, Chamberlinian agglomeration model

Pflüger, Michael - 2003 - Final version

This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, contains two agglomerative forces. However, in contrast to that model, the present model is analytically solvable. Moreover, the present model exhibits a 'supercritical pitchfork...

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Regional integration and economic development : a theoretical approach

Dion, David-Pascal - 2004

We use a model of combined endogenous growth and economic geography to study the impact of regional economic integration on the member and non-member countries of a regional union. Regional integration affects growth through interregional technology diffusion symbolized by knowledge spillovers...

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Trade, growth and geography : a synthetic approach

Dion, David-Pascal - 2004

Economic integration affects economic development through two main channels: growth and localization of the economic activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this paper their similarities and specificities before...

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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 - 2000

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Regional determinants of German FDI in the Czech Republic : evidence from a gravity model approach

Schäffler, Johannes; Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael - 2014

regions; second, attributes representing the distance between the headquarters in Germany and the affiliates in the Czech … der regionalen Verteilung multinationaler Unternehmen in Deutschland und deren Tochtergesellschaften in der Tschechischen … Unternehmenszentralen in Deutschland und den Tochtergesellschaften in der Tschechischen Republik darstellen; und drittens, Charakteristika …

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Relative specialisation of EU regions : an econometric analysis of sectoral gross fixed capital formation

Stirböck, Claudia - 2002

This paper analyses the level of relative specialisation in terms of gross fixed capital formation in EU regions for the period between 1985 and 1994. Controlling for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity problems, we get consistent econometric results. Larger market and regional sizes...

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Where do MNEs expand production : location choices of the pharmaceutical industry in Europe after 1992

Ruane, Frances P. (contributor); Zhang, Xiaheng (contributor) - 2007

Differences in regulations, technical standards and national medical cultures across EU member states created a highly segmented pharmaceutical market in Europe prior to the implementation of the Single Market Programme. The subsequent reduction in non-tariff barriers to trade would be expected...

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Arbeitszeitpolitik als Beschäftigungspolitik? : Zur Dikussion der Beschäftigungseffekte von Wochenarbeitszeitverkürzungen in der Privatwirtschaft und Öffentlichem Dienst

Henneberger, Fred - In: Weniger Arbeit - Arbeit für alle?, (pp. 17-50). 2001

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