The fact that firms benefit from close proximity to other firms with which they can exchange
inputs, skilled labor or know-how helps explain why many industrial clusters are so …

Die vorliegende Studie präsentiert einen Methodenvorschlag für gemeinde-und kreisscharfe
Abgrenzungen von Arbeitsmarktregionen auf der Basis von Pendlerverflechtungen. Die …

This article evaluates the research and development (R&D) enhancing effects of two large
public grant schemes for the German biotechnology industry (BioRegio and BioProfile). Both …

The inverse relationship between economic growth and labor market developments in the
form of changes in the unemployment rate is known in economic literature as Okun's law …

In dieser Studie wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern der beobachtbare Prozess des
wirtschaftsstrukturellen Wandel der Industrienation Deutschland hin zur postindustriellen …

In this paper, we evaluate the R&D enhancing effects of two large public grant schemes
aiming at encouraging the performance of firms organized in clusters. These are Germany's …

The emergence and growth of cities is affected through different factors. Urban economists
have a broad consensus about the role of agglomeration externalities in the emergence and …

At the beginning of the 21st century, for the first time in history, more than half of mankind
lives in cities (United Nations DESA, 2008). 1 Even though earth would offer plenty of space …

This paper uses the task-based view of technological change to study employment and
wage polarization at the level of local labor markets in Germany between 1979 and 2007. In …

This paper investigates the short-and medium-term effects of the deregulation of
shopopening hours legislation on retail employment in Germany. In 2006, the legislative …