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Vocational schools as an instrument of interregional competition : empirical evidence from German counties

Bischoff, Ivo; Hauschildt, Julia - 2017 - Version: May 17, 2017

The German apprenticeship system is widely known throughout the world. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools on county level using data from 213 West-German counties between 2001 and 2006. We use spatial econometrics to test for spatial correlation in counties' expenditure on vocational...

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Housing market convergence : evidence from Germany

Unal, Umut; Hayo, Bernd; Erol, Isil - 2022

This paper provides an analysis of the convergence pattern of German housing prices and rents employing a new dataset … that covers all the country's administrative districts. In addition to conventional tests for 𝛽-convergence and 𝜎-convergence … districts. Our results reveal no evidence of convergence across Germany or within states; rather, we discover widespread …

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The role of R&D-intensive clusters for regional competitiveness

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Mitze, Timo - 2020

productivity growth is found within the context of conditional convergence across German regions. With regard to the underlying …

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Market access, regional price level and wage disparities : the German case

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - 2008

In this paper we use the NEG framework of the Helpman model to investigate the spatial distribution of wages across German labour market regions under different assumptions. As the assumptions of equal regional price level and equal real wages are strongly rejected for the German economy,...

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The importance of spatial autocorrelation for regional employment growth in Germany

Zierahn, Ulrich - 2010

In analyzing the disparities of the regional developments in the volume of employment in Germany, in the recent empirical literature so called shift-share-regression-models are frequently applied. However, these models usually neglect spatial interdependencies, even though such interdependencies...

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Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf das wirtschaftliche Niveau der Regionen in Deutschland

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Muraro, Nina - 2009

Gegenstand des Artikels ist die Schätzung einer Translog-Produktionsfunktion, die die Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf die Produktion heute und im Jahr 2020 betrachtet. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf eine Entwicklung hin, die zu steigenden Disparitäten führt. Schon heute ist ein...

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Here today, gone tomorrow? : regional labor mobility of German university graduates

Krabel, Stefan; Flöther, Choni - 2011

In this study we trace university graduates' labor mobility when entering the labor market after graduation. We examine to what extent such mobility is determined by regional factors of the university region, personal characteristics of graduates as well as their field of study. Our analysis is...

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Monetary and fiscal policy in times of crises : a new Keynesian perspective in continuous time

Hayo, Bernd; Niehof, Britta - 2014 - This version: October 27, 2014

To analyse the interdependence between monetary and fiscal policy during a financial crisis, we develop an open-economy DSGE model with monetary and fiscal policy as well as financial markets in a continuous-time framework based on stochastic differential equations. Monetary policy is modelled...

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Public preferences for government spending priorities : survey evidence from Germany

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2014 - This version: 4 November 2014

Employing data from a representative survey conducted in Germany, this paper examines public preferences for the size and composition of government expenditure. We focus on public attitudes toward taxes, public debt incurrence, and public spending in six different policy areas. Our findings...

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Leaders' impact on public spending priorities : the case of the German Laender

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2012 - This version: 8 February 2012

We examine determinants of the composition of public expenditure in the German Laender (states) over the period 1993-2008, as the Laender exhibit a high degree of institutional and political homogeneity and are endowed with extensive fiscal competences. Our prime contribution is an investigation...

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