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Expensive and low-price places to live: regional price levels and the agglomeration wage differential in Western Germany

Blien, Uwe; Gartner, Hermann; Stüber, Heiko; Wolf, Katja - 2007

Recently, there has been a renewed interest in the agglomeration wage differential. One of the open research question is whether wage differences between large cities and the rural country are due to unobserved differences in regional price levels. In this paper information on regional price...

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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014

Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and increase regional disparities. The age-creativity link is however far from clear at the aggregate level. Contributing to this debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce...

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Migration and regional wage disparities in Germany

Fendel, Tanja - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236 (2016) 1, pp. 3-35

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Trade-FDI Linkages in a System of Gravity Equations for German Regional Data

Mitze, Timo; Alecke, Björn; Untiedt, Gerhard - 2009

We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … framework in explaining German trade and FDI activity. Looking carefully at cross-variable linkages we basically find … substitutive links between trade flows and outward FDI in line with earlier empirical evidence for Germany. Building upon German …

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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 neither find compelling evidence for a specialisation...

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Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry

Cosar, A. Kerem; Grieco, Paul L. E.; Tintelnot, Felix - 2012

model with cross-border trade and heterogeneous firms. Our approach separately identifies border-related from distance …

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Toenemende convergentie van de Nederlandse en Duitse goederenhandel (Increasing Convergence in the Trade of Goods between the Netherlands and Germany)

Vrolijk, Hein - 2013

, which calls the applicability of established trade theories into question. A promising new explanation is offered by the …

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Essays on wage and productivity disparities : empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil

Ehrl, Philipp - 2014

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Exports, agglomeration and workforce diversity : an empirical assessment for German establishments

Brunow, Stephan; Grünwald, Luise - 2015

Theoretical and empirical contributions on export behavior highlight the importance of firms' productivity and their levels of economies of scale on firms' export success in "foreign" markets. In the context of agglomeration economies, firms enjoy productivity gains when they are located close...

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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany Since Reunification

Südekum, Jens - 2004

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