"Obwohl die Zahl der Betriebsstillegungen in der Bundesrepublik in den letzten Jahren erheblich zugenommen hat, sind ihre Auswirkungen auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte bislang kaum untersucht worden. Am Beispiel der Großwerft AG Weser in Bremen, durch deren Schließung Ende 1983 ca. 2.000 Arbeiter und...

"The prospects for economic development in 1999 are not bad. There is, however, an unusually large degree of uncertainty concerning the future development of the economy and the labour market. In view of this we are basing our alternative projection on a broad range of variation in the...

"This paper explores how different levels of regional concentration and specialisation affect the long-term growth of young firms. The sample consists of knowledge-intensive and non-knowledge-intensive western German manufacturing firms which were set-up in 1992 and managed to survive 11 years....

"Theories in regional science predict that related establishments benefit from their mutual proximity due to forward-backward linkages, labor market pooling and knowledge spillovers (the Marshallian forces). While the existence of these externalities as a whole is well supported by the empirical...