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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? An empirical analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

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Regional convergence in Germany: A geographically weighted regression approach

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Türck, Matthias - 2005

The convergence of German regions represents a politically explosive question. Different studies examined convergence … processes of Germany. We derive equations to estimate the convergence speed on basis of a Solow model, to which human capital is … added. The geographically weighted regression permits a detailed analysis of convergence processes, which has not been …

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Convergence and the effects of spatial interaction

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the issue of income convergence has received considerable attention in economic … scarce. The present paper is an attempt to provide additional information on the spatial aspect of convergence. Spatial … econometric methods are used to investigate regional convergence in West Germany. The results indicate that spatial interaction is …

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The mysteries of the trade: Employment effects of urban interindustry spillovers

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010

Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...

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Regionale Arbeitsmärkte in der „Großen Rezession“ : Dynamik regionaler Arbeitslosenquoten in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien im Krisenjahr 2009

Reiner, Christian - 2010

Regional labour markets in the „Great Recession“: The evolution of regional unemployment rates in Germany, France and the United Kingdom in 2009. Contrary to the already encompassing literature on the differentiated effects of the “Great Recession” on states, the article takes a regional...

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The role of COVID-19 in spatial reorganization : some evidence from Germany

Ehlert, Andree; Wedemeier, Jan; Zahlmann, Tabea - 2021

This paper analyzes the role of regional demographic, socioeconomic and political factors on changes in mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides new empirical evidence for the regional differentiation of lockdown measures and indicates a possible reorganization of spatial economic and...

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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects

Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020

Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...

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Specialization and convergence of industry-specific employment in Germany : a linear mixed-model approach with spatial components

Brenner, Thomas; Kauermann, Göran - In: Regional studies 50 (2016) 2, pp. 326-341

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Does Germany have an East-West problem? : regional growth patterns in Germany since reunification

Maseland, Robbert K. J. - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 7, pp. 1161-1175

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Regional dynamics in EU11

Pinelli, Dino; Pellényi, Gábor Márk - 2021

This chapter analyses the dynamics of regional disparities in the member states that joined the European Union in or after 2004, excluding Cyprus and Malta (EU11). The analysis shows that while differences between countries have been shrinking, regional disparities in GDP per capita and...

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