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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384982
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486760
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295418
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Trade shocks, labour markets and elections in the first globalisation
Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021
This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture - the grain invasion from … results suggest that the negative and persistent effects of trade shocks we see today are not a universal feature of … on the county level and combine it with national trade data at the product level. We exploit the cross-regional variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643303
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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization
Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021
This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture - the grain invasion from … competition. Our results suggest that the negative and persistent eects of trade shocks we see today are not a universal feature … agricultural censuses on the county level and combine it with national trade data at the product level. We exploit the cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653510
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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Reunification
Suedekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957315
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073463
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Essays on wage and productivity disparities : empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
Ehrl, Philipp - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463073
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467081
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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany Since Reunification
Südekum, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070225