The aim of this paper is to analyze the consequences of spatial dependence on regional growth and the convergence process. Based on a sample of 92 European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we show that the unconditional ?-convergence model is misspecified due to the presence of spatial...

This paper goes beyond simple contiguity in order to estimate the diffusion of spatial growth. It includes factors such us distance, communications infrastructure or population in the spatial weights matrix associated to a ?-convergence regression. Spatial interactions are explained principally...

The findings of recent studies on adjustment processes suggest that regional labour markets in the EU and the US differ significantly. Low wage flexibility and limited labour mobility in European countries involve persistent unemployment differentials across regions. However, the spatial...

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...

This paper proposes an integrated theoretical and methodological framework characterized by technological interactions to explain growth processes from a Schumpeterian perspective. Global interdependence implied by international R&D spillovers needs to be taken into account in the theoretical...

Which of Germany’s regions is the most attractive? Where is it best to live and work—on objective grounds? These questions are summed up in the concept “quality of life”. This paper uses recent research projects that determine this parameter to examine the spatial distribution of quality...

Abstract Kelejian (2008) introduces a J-type test for the situation in which a null linear regression model, Model0, is to be tested against one or more rival non-nested alternatives, Model1, …, Model g , where typically the competing models possess endogenous spatial lags and spatially...