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The persistent effects of place-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on …

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Local employment multiplier : evidence from relocation of public-sector entities in South Korea

Lee, Hwanoong; Ko, Changsu; Kim, Wookun - 2023

We exploit a series of public-sector entity relocations in South Korea as an exogenous source of variation in public sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment position increases private sector employment by one...

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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions

Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...

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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

process. Our main finding is that city growth in western Germany did not follow a random walk, while city growth in eastern … Germany did follow a random walk. Different post-war economic systems are most likely responsible for this outcome. …

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Endogenous spatial production networks : quantitative implications for trade and productivity

Panigrahi, Piyush - 2021

likelihood framework for structural estimation that is uninhibited by the scale of data, and (c) a procedure for counterfactual …

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Employment in the public sector

Forni, Lorenzo; Giordano, Raffaela - 2003

This paper presents a model of wage-employment determination in private and public sectors, which allows us to analyze the effects of different institutional arrangements on labor market equilibria. In particular, it focuses on how different degrees of coordination in decision processes affect...

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Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy

Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Südekum, Jens - 2018

implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for Germany, we find that it indeed delivers smaller spatial economic …

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Optimal taxation under regional inequality

Kessing, Sebastian; Lipatov, Vilen; Zoubek, Jens Malte - 2014

Regional productivity differences provide scope for productivity-enhancing labor mobility. Redistribution reduces relocation incentives through higher taxes or lower transfers. Combining an intensive labor supply margin with an extensive, productivity-enhancing migration margin, we determine how...

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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the old border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …

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The regional effects of a national minimum wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, Tobias - 2018 - Version: February 2018

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in … 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from …

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