Non-communicable diseases represent one of the greatest challenges for health policymakers. The main objective of this study is to analyse the development of standardised mortality rates for cerebrovascular disease, which is one of the most common causes of deaths, in relation to income...

This study analyzes spatial dimensions of inequality under decentralization in Indonesia from 1996-2010 using the hierarchical decomposition method. It uses household expenditures rather than regional accounts and tries to investigate the contributions of spatial inequalities to overall...

Eine Big-Data-Analyse von Patentanmeldungen zeigt die Entstehungsorte deutscher Digitalisierungstechnologie. Leistungsstarke Cluster sind die süddeutschen Großstädte. Allein München bringt hierzulande jedes vierte Digitalisierungspatent hervor, mehr als jeder dritte Landkreis hingegen kein...

Bautätigkeit und Baubedarf fallen in Deutschland räumlich auseinander. Während es in allen Großstädten an Wohnungen mangelt, werden in vielen ländlichen Regionen deutlich zu viele Einfamilienhäuser gebaut. Dies zeigt die Baubedarfsanalyse des IW Köln für den Zeitraum 2011 bis 2015.

Zentrale verteilungspolitische Indikatoren in Deutschland haben sich seit dem Jahr 2005 wieder normalisiert oder sogar strukturell verbessert. Dennoch bleiben mindestens drei zentrale Herausforderungen: Erstens gelingt es nicht, die Langzeitarbeitslo-sigkeit stärker als bereits geschehen...

The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries for which household survey data is unavailable or unreliable. A first application of this methodology is presented by merging data on the geographical location of gambling...

This paper provides empirical evidence that individual labor productivity significantly depends on the size of the local labor market in which a worker previously acquired work experience. The analysis uses German micro data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) on transitions to...

This paper adds three dimensions to the received literature: it models migration when the individuals' preferences regarding their relative income are ordinal, it works out the resulting spatial steady-state distribution of the individuals, and it shows that the aggregate of the individuals'...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the regional disparities of six decentralized countries using LIS microdata. In order to determine the extent of the territorial variable in the explanation of income inequality, we carry out two complementary analyses. On the one hand, we perform the...

We show for Germany that labor productivity as reflected in wage is, ceteris paribus, higher for workers who previously acquired work experience in rather urban labor markets with a large local workforce than in rather rural labor markets which are small in terms of regional employment. Our...

Deutschland im Jahre 2017 bietet ein widersprüchliches Bild: Die Wirtschaft brummt, die Arbeitslosigkeit befindet sich auf einem historischen Tiefstand; gleichzeitig gibt es vor allem in den Städten ein nicht unbeträchtliches Maß an Armut. Tatsächlich sind in Deutschland auf der einen Seite...

In der Varieties-of-Capitalism-Literatur ist Deutschland ein klassisches Beispiel für eine koordinierte Marktwirtschaft. Die vorliegende Analyse zeigt, wie die nationalen institutionellen Größen Kapital und Arbeit auf Ebene der Bundesländer variieren. Dazu wird einerseits die räumliche...

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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-effciency trade-off. The optimal...

Steuern stellen die wichtigste Einnahmequelle der Kommunen dar. Sie sind von 2004 bis 2014 sehr dynamisch gewachsen. Allerdings profitieren nicht alle in gleichem Maße. Die Länderdurchschnitte sind daher wenig repräsentativ. Besonders in den Kommunen der wirtschaftsstarken Länder sind die...

Using a large panel microdata set for the time period 1992 to 2014, the paper analyses the long-run trends in German wage inequality for full-time workers. The approach differentiates by gender and region. The analysis confirms the result of other studies that show a sharp increase in wage...

Using data from the OECD Regional Well-Being Index - a set of quality-of-life indicators measured at the sub-national level, we construct a set of composite well-being indices. We analyse the extent to which the choice of five alternative aggregation methods affects the well-being ranking of...

In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the period 2003-2014, we analyze the spatial distribution of...

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...