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Regional Income Convergence in the Enlarged Europe, 1995-2000: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Fischer, Manfred M.; Stirböck, Claudia - 2004

This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in 1995 to 2000 and, moreover, relaxes the assumption of a single steady-state growth path which appears to be out of tune with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial...

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The effect of broadband infrastructure on entrepreneurial activities: The case of Germany

Heger, Diana; Rinawi, Miriam; Veith, Tobias - 2011

This paper investigates whether the local infrastructure favours entrepreneurial activities. Besides the physical and knowledge infrastructure we take into account a county's broadband availability by building an index which accounts for county-related specificities. We find that broadband...

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The effect of broadband infrastructure on entrepreneurial activities: The case of Germany

Heger, Diana; Rinawi, Miriam; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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Regional Income Convergence in the Enlarged Europe, 1995-2000: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Fischer, Manfred M.; Stirböck, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

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European telecommunication regulation: Effects on telecommunication providers

Veith, Tobias - 2010

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific...

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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …

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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997

, dass mit einer größeren Lohnspreizung die Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit bei gegebenem Output, Kapitaleinsatz und …

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The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages

Zwick, Thomas - 2008

This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences. The second strain explains the employment...

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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? A CGE Analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - 2005

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous …

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