This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor...

Formal überqualifiziert beschäftigt bedeutet, dass die formale Qualifikation (z. B. mit anerkannt abgeschlossener Berufsausbildung oder mit Hochschulabschluss) höher ist, als es das Anforderungsniveau der aktuell ausgeübten Tätigkeit erfordert. In Niedersachsen und Bremen ist jeder fünfte...

Während die Staatsangehörigkeit bei Erwachsenen nur wenig über den Stand der Integration aussagt, ist sie bei Kindern ein guter Indikator für eine nur kurz zurückliegende Migrationsgeschichte. So erhalten seit der Reform des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts im Jahr 2000 alle in Deutschland zur...

Formal überqualifiziert beschäftigt bedeutet, dass die formale Qualifikation (z. B. mit anerkannt abgeschlossener Berufsausbildung oder mit Hochschulabschluss) höher ist, als es das Anforderungsniveau der aktuell ausgeübten Tätigkeit erfordert. In Niedersachsen und Bremen ist jeder fünfte...

The article researches the features of the synergy of the social functions of the state and the housing mortgage loan (HML) in order to develop a tool that allows determining guidelines and directions for strengthening the effectiveness of collaboration between the state and the private sector...

We examine economic convergence among subnational regions of Bangladesh over the period 1992-2013. Unavailability of the traditional gross domestic product (GDP) for subnational areas and building on findings of recent luminosity literature, we use night lights intensity as a proxy for local...

In China, the relative wages of high-skilled and low-skilled workers display huge variation across different regions. We examine whether financial intermediation development can explain such variation. Conceptually, better-developed financial intermediation helps financially-constrained firms...

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...

We document two novel stylized facts on European integration and cohesion. First, we show that the interregional income distribution, measured as GDP per capita at the NUTS-3 level, is bimodal for all considered years. Second, we demonstrate that this mixture of two log-normal distributions...

Building upon the labour-augmented K+S modelling framework (Dosi et al., 2010, 2017, 2020), we address the analysis of the North-South divide by means of an agent-based model (ABM) endogenously reproducing divergence between two artificial macro-regions characterized by identical initial...

The development of Information and Communications Technology and digital economies has contributed to changes in the consumption of goods and services in various areas of life, affecting the growing expectations of users in relation to price statistics. Therefore, it is important to provide...

The dominance of the banking sector shows that the banking industry plays an important role in driving the economy in Indonesia. As part of the national banking industry, Regional Development Banks (RDB) are required to contribute to the economy through optimal performance. One of the important...

The main purpose of this study is to explore the determinants of average household consumption spending in counties and cities from the two aspects of government fiscal expenditure and household characteristics. A spatial econometric model, the spatial Durbin model, was used to analyze...

This study proposes a subjective poverty line for each household to quantify the vulnerability to poverty in urban and rural households by considering residents’ expectations and their propensity to compare their perceived welfare level with those of other community members. The findings show...

Am 1. Oktober wird der Mindestlohn auf 12 Euro angehoben. Es handelt sich um die größte Reform des Mindestlohns seit seiner Einführung Anfang 2015. Gewerkschaften und Sozialdemokraten können die Anhebung als großen Erfolg verbuchen. Naturgemäß ist das öffentliche Interesse an...