In Deutschland gibt es beträchtliche regionale Unterschiede in der Ausprägung sozioökonomischer Indikatoren, die die Lebensverhältnisse beeinflussen. Es wird deshalb in Politik und Gesellschaft diskutiert, ob die im Grundgesetz postulierte Gleichwertigkeit der Lebensverhältnisse noch...

Since the early 1970s, it was argued that shifts from relatively smaller to larger youth cohorts in the labor force raise the unemploy- ment rate. In contrast, Shimer (2001) comes to a contrary conclusion using US state level data. I provide a theoretical framework for local labor markets that...

Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and 2014 to estimate quasi- causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes,...

This paper analyzes the impact of ethnic heterogeneity and military conflict on the degree of regional consumption risk-sharing in Ukraine. Ethnicity and violent conflicts can influence risk-sharing e.g. through social capital, ethnic fractionalization, migration, and remittances. The sample...