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Economic and employment growth in Germany: The sectoral elements of Verdoorn's Law with regional data

Oelgemöller, Jens - Centrum für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2013

A major aspect of employment growth is discussed in relation to economic growth. This paper deals with the question as to whether the relationship between economic and employment growth, subsumed under the idiom Verdoorn's Law, holds true at the sectoral level. For this reason, the German labor...

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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth: Increasing Returns in Cognitive Knowledge Use

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (2011). Volume 102(4), pages 385-405. Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D,...

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Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...

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International Comparisons of Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Performance: Stylised Facts and Decomposition of Trends

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition...

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Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …

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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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