Local employment growth in West Germany: A dynamic panel approach

Labour Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 445-458

  Blien, Uwe ^a,b   Suedekum, Jens ^b,c   Wolf, Katja ^a  

^a Bundesagentur fur Arbeit   (Germany)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel estimation; Externalities; Local employment growth; Regional labour markets; Urbanization and localisation effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746345862     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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