Regionale Analysen benötigen ihrer jeweiligen Forschungsfrage adäquate Daten. Aufgrund ihrer sowohl räumlichen Vollständigkeit als auch inhaltlichen und zeitlichen Breite werden seit langem administrative Daten z.B. auf Gemeinde- oder Kreisebene verwendet. Allerdings bilden administrative...

[ 1. Arbeitsmarktregionen als funktionale Raumeinheit ] Arbeitsmarktregionen sind eine regionale Einheit, die in sich wirtschaftlich stark verflochtene aber nach außen hin weitgehend unabhängige Räume darstellen. Grundsätzlich sollen in den funktional gefassten Regionen Arbeits- und Wohnorte...

The transformation of economy and society requires far-reaching technological and social innovations. To utilise the economic opportunities of transformation and to mitigate the negative effects of structural change, a determined transformation-oriented R&I policy is needed. Using the example of...

Using a uniquely assembled panel dataset, we estimate the impact of neighborhood and peer effects on female labor supply. Nonrandom sorting and unobserved heterogeneity at the individual and neighborhood levels make recovering these impact parameters more complicated in the absence of...

This paper evaluates the rent control policy implemented in Germany in 2015. Like many countries around the world, German cities and metropolitan areas have experienced a strong increase in rental prices during the last decade. In response, the politicians aimed to dampen the rise in rental...

This paper evaluates the rent control policy implemented in Germany in 2015. Like many countries around the world, German cities and metropolitan areas have experienced a strong increase in rental prices during the last decade. In response, the politicians aimed to dampen the rise in rental...

This data report documents the individual-level dataset of a randomized experiment to test whether obese people are more likely to reduce weight when receiving financial incentives. The experiment, conducted between March 2010 and July 2013, comprises 700 obese medical rehabilitation patients...

Real estate prices are central to a range of themes that are, e.g., relevant for monetary policy, community development, environmental valuation, and economic planning more generally. This paper developes a real estate index based on apartment offer prices on the post code level for Germany,...