Add to ORKGIn the paper we analyse, ten years after the German unification, the relevance of modern theoretical developments on trade, location and growth for East Germany using sectoral and regional data. Given our discussion of stylized facts about industry growth, economies of scale and differences in labour productivity we test for the existence of localised knowledge spillovers and a spatial wage structure in East Germany. We find that localised knowledge spillovers play a role and that a spatial wage structure exists in East Germany.
East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall i...
Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990 the median real monthly wage of prime age ea...
This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread thr...
In the paper we analyse, ten years after the German unification, the relevance of modern theoretical...
In the paper we analyse, ten years after the German unification, the relevance of modern theoretical...
Since the economic convergence between East and West Germany has come to a halt, the lack of scale a...
This paper sheds light on the transferability of human capital in periods of dramatic structural cha...
The vast majority of regions in West Germany, and the EU, have become more similar interms of per-ca...
'This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers...
This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers ...
There is a growing amount of literature in economic geography showing that historical episodes can l...
At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living c...
The territory which had been the German Democratic Republic between 1949 and 1989 since the industri...
In an earlier paper (Journal of Comparative Economics, 1997) the authors argued, against the convent...
The massive movement of capital and labor in opposite directions is the most striking characteristic...
East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall i...
Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990 the median real monthly wage of prime age ea...
This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread thr...
In the paper we analyse, ten years after the German unification, the relevance of modern theoretical...
In the paper we analyse, ten years after the German unification, the relevance of modern theoretical...
Since the economic convergence between East and West Germany has come to a halt, the lack of scale a...
This paper sheds light on the transferability of human capital in periods of dramatic structural cha...
The vast majority of regions in West Germany, and the EU, have become more similar interms of per-ca...
'This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers...
This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers ...
There is a growing amount of literature in economic geography showing that historical episodes can l...
At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living c...
The territory which had been the German Democratic Republic between 1949 and 1989 since the industri...
In an earlier paper (Journal of Comparative Economics, 1997) the authors argued, against the convent...
The massive movement of capital and labor in opposite directions is the most striking characteristic...
East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall i...
Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990 the median real monthly wage of prime age ea...
This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread thr...