If being around smart people makes us smarter and more productive, what can regions do to attract smart people? This paper considers endogenous cultural amenities as a location factor for high-skilled workers. To overcome selection in the provision of cultural amenities, we exploit the variation...

This book rigorously explores the critical, initial stage of cluster emergence in which the seeds for further growth are sown. Whether economic growth actually occurs, however, ultimately depends on various regional conditions and the processes in place.

"The resilience and growth prospects of a region depend crucially on the extent to which industry-specific human capital can be redeployed across the industries of a regional economy. To this end, we present a toolbox to analyse a region's industrial structure, development prospects and economic...

This paper follows the industry employment histories of all individuals at some point affiliated with the dismantling Swedish shipbuilding industry 1970-2000. We analyse the situation of the individual workers leaving shipbuilding through investigating to what extent they were employed at all,...

Das Saarland hat während der letzten Jahrzehnte einen tief greifenden Strukturwandel erlebt. In den 1990er Jahren war es neben Bayern das einzige Bundesland, in dem die sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung gewachsen ist. Die wichtigste Ursache für dieses Wachstum ist das geringe...

Die Studie untersucht die Bedeutung der Branchenstruktur für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Westpfalz (Arbeitsagenturen Kaiserslautern und Pirmasens), die heute eine der strukturschwachen Regionen in den alten Bundesländern ist. Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Westpfalz wird durch...