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The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018

This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...

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The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel M. - 2018

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The regional distribution of public employment: Theory and evidence

Kessing, Sebastian G.; Strozzi, Chiara - 2012

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...

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Political Rents, Promotion Incentives, and Support for a Non-Democratic Regime

Lazarev, Valery - 2004

This paper analyzes the economic foundations of a non-democratic political regime, where the ruling bureaucracy captures rents through collective control over state property and job assignment. The model developed here yields the equilibrium in the 'political labor market,' where the ruling...

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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution

Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004

This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...

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Explaining the Level of Relative Investment Specialisation: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of EU Regions

Stirböck, Claudia - 2002

This paper analyses the level of relative specialisation in terms of gross fixed capital formation in EU regions. Larger market and regional sizes diminish; a higher unemployment rate, population density, the fact of being a central region, the distance to the economic centre, and economic...

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Relative specialisation of EU regions: an econometric analysis of sectoral gross fixed capital formation

Stirböck, Claudia - 2002

This paper analyses the level of relative specialisation in terms of gross fixed capital formation in EU regions for the period between 1985 and 1994. Controlling for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity problems, we get consistent econometric results. Larger market and regional sizes...

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On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap

Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018

The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...

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On the origin of the German East-West population gap

Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018

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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Reunification

Suedekum, Jens - 2004

In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between … 1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we …. By and large and with some exceptions, this conclusion holds both for West Germany and Germany as a whole, as well as for …

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