Threshold effects and regional economic growth—evidence from West Germany

Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth – Evidence from West Germany

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal distribution. Thus, application of the threshold model to a real world case, here West Germany, shows...

Regional Geographic Research and Development Spillovers and Economic Growth: Evidence from West Germany

F M. and N A. (2005) Regional geographic research and development spillovers and economic growth: evidence from West Germany, Regional Studies 39, 143–153. The paper is based on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that emphasise the effects of both own research and development efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions’ productivity. It proposes robust e...

Economic Assimilation and Outmigration of Immigrants in West-Germany∗

By analyzing earnings of observed immigrants workers, the literature on the economic assimilation of immigrants has generally overlooked two potentially important selectivity issues. First, earnings of immigrant workers may differ substantially from those of non-workers. Second, earnings of immigrants who do not return to their native country may differ from earnings of outmigrants. Economic th...

Regional Economic Growth and Spatial Spillover Effects in MENA Area

T he main objective of this study is to estimate the spatial spillover effects of the economic growth among the selected countries of MENA region. For this purpose, the Spatial Durbin Model in the framework of spatial dynamic panel data was estimated during the period of 1970-2010. The spatial Diagnostic tests affirmed the occurrence of spatial positive autocorrelation phenomenon for...

Regional Economic Integration and Factor Mobility in Unified Germany