Convergence in West German Regional Unemployment Rates

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0475.2007.00416.x

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“…Unit roots are less likely to be rejected when the time-series possess structural breaks (BAYER and JÜßEN, 2007;ROMERO-ÁVILA and USABIAGA, 2007;SEPHTON, 2009). Nevertheless, the question of persistence remains.…”

Section: Persistence Of Regional Labour Market Differentialsmentioning

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“…Yet, many of these studies also note the contradictory evidence provided by BARTIK (1991BARTIK ( , 1993a and ROWTHORN and GLYN (2006) that local shocks have long-lasting or permanent effects on local labour market outcomes. Relevant to the study of the European Union, the Marston and Blanchard and Katz studies also are routinely cited by European regional labour studies as evidence of efficient US regional labour markets primarily occurring through interregional migration, which can be used to benchmark European labour market adjustment processes (BROERSMA and VAN DIJK, 2002;PEKKALA and KANGASHARJU, 2002;LÓPEZ-BAZO et al, 2005;BAYER and JÜßEN, 2007;BANDE et al, 2008;BARTZ and FUCHS-SCHÜNDELN, 2012). …”

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When Spatial Equilibrium Fails: Is Place-Based Policy Second Best?

Partridge¹,

Rickman²,

Olfert³

et al. 2013

Regional Studies

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When spatial equilibrium fails: is place-based policy second best, Regional Studies. Place-based or geographically targeted policy often is promoted to help poor regions. Based on the spatial equilibrium model, economists routinely argue that place-based policies are distortionary and only slow the needed economic adjustments. This paper reviews the empirical evidence about whether the spatial equilibrium model holds in reality and finds that, even in the United States where labour mobility is thought to be much higher than in Europe, at best weak support for the spatial equilibrium hypothesis is found. Although this suggests potential efficacy of place-based policy, the informational and political economy conditions required for place-based policy to be effective are described. Spatial equilibrium Place-based policy Labour mobility PARTRIDGE M. D., RICKMAN D. S., OLFERT M. R. and TAN Y. 当空间均衡失效时：根据地方的政策是次优的吗？区域研究。根据地方、或以特定地理为目标的政策，经常被推广来协助穷困区域。经济学者根据空间均衡模式，週而復始地主张根据地方的政策是扭曲的，且只会减缓必要的经济调整。本文回顾空间均衡模式在现实中是否成立的经验证据，并发现：即便在劳动流动性被认为远较欧洲为高的美国，也仅能发现对于空间均衡假说的微弱支持。儘管此一发现指出根据地方的政策的潜在效力，但也描绘了该政策得以生效所必须具备的资讯及政治经济条件。空间均衡根据地方的政策劳动流动性 PARTRIDGE M. D., RICKMAN D. S., OLFERT M. R. et TAN Y.En cas d'échec de l'équilibre spatial: une politique adaptée au milieu, est-elle une solution de second choix, Regional Studies. Souvent, la politique adaptée au milieu ou ciblée géographiquement est favorisée pour aider les régions en perte de vitesse. Fondées sur le modèle spatial d'équilibre, les économistes affirment régulièrement que les politiques adaptées au milieu ont des effets de distorsion et finissent par ralentir les ajustements économiques nécessaires. Cet article dresse un bilan des preuves empiriques qui laissent voir si, oui ou non, le modèle spatial d'équilibre est valable en réalité, et constate que, même aux États-Unis où la mobilité du tavail est considérée beaucoup plus élevée par rapport à l'Europe, il s'avère au mieux un soutien faible en faveur du modèle spatial d'équilibre. Bien que cela laisse supposer l'efficacité potentielle de la politique adaptée au milieu, on présente les conditions informationnelles et d'économie politique qui sont nécessaires à la réussite de la politique adaptée au milieu.Équilibre spatial Politique adaptée au milieu Mobilité du travail PARTRIDGE M. D., RICKMAN D. S., OLFERT M. R. und TAN Y. Wenn das räumliche Gleichgewicht scheitert: ist eine ortsbasierte Politik das Zweitbeste, Regional Studies. Zur Unterstützung von armen Regionen wird oft für eine ortsbasierte oder geografisch zielgerichtete Politik plädiert. Ausgehend vom räumlichen Gleichgewichtsmodell argumentieren Ökonomen gewöhnlich, dass ortsbasierte Politiken zu Verzerrungen führen und die nötigen wirtschaftlichen Anpassungen nur hinauszögern. In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die empirischen Belege dafür, dass das räumliche Gleichgewichtsmodell der Realität gewachsen ist, und stellen fest, dass selbst in den USA, wo von einer weitaus höheren Mobilität der Arbeitskräfte ausgegangen wird als in Europa, bestenfalls schwache Bel...

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Section: Persistence Of Regional Labour Market Differentialsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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When Spatial Equilibrium Fails: Is Place-Based Policy Second Best?

Partridge¹,

Rickman²,

Olfert³

et al. 2013

Regional Studies

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“…If there is evidence of catching up we are also able to estimate the convergence speed of East Germany toward West Germany. The empirical tests employed here are similar to Bayer and Juessen (2007) who conduct a time series approach to regional unemployment rates of the German Laender, however, their analysis is restricted to West German regions only.…”

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Is East Germany catching up? A time series perspective

Aumann

Scheufele

2010

Post-Communist Economies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This paper assesses whether the economy of East Germany is catching up with the West German region in terms of welfare. While the primary measure for convergence and catching up is per capita output, we also look at other macroeconomic indicators such as unemployment rates, wage rates, and production levels in the manufacturing sector. In contrast to existing studies of convergence between regions of reunified Germany, our approach is purely based upon the time series dimension and is thus directly focused on the catching up process in East Germany as a region. Our testing setup includes standard ADF unit root tests as well as unit root tests that endogenously allow for a break in the deterministic component of the process. In our analysis, we find evidence of catching up for East Germany for most of the indicators. However, convergence speed is slow, and thus it can be expected that the catching up process will take further decades until the regional gap is closed. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…: OECD Employment Outlook 2005, 2014, and in the second case, -the models of sigma-and beta-convergence (eg. Huber, 2007;Bayer, Juessen, 2006;Tyrowicz, Wojcik, 2009). At the same time, the assessment of inequality in unemployment in Russian regions is insufficiently covered in the works of economists.…”

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Youth Unemployment in Russia: Models of Interregional Differentiation

Blinova¹,

Markov²,

Rusanovskiy³

2021

Regional Formation and Development Studies

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The paper presents a statistical assessment of interregional differences in youth unemployment in Russia. The unemployment rate was decomposed into fundamental and cyclical components, which was essential for deeper understanding of the specificity of the youth labour market. We made a typology of the regions of RF according to similar trends of youth unemployment and an empirical analysis of the rates, dynamics and factors of unemployment among the young people aged 15-19 and 20-29 years for 77 regions of Russia between 2005 and 2013. We also analyzed the response of the regional rates of youth unemployment to crises. For analyzing the regional parameters of youth unemployment, we employed economical-statistical methods. We identified the interregional differences in the youth labor market and the nature of their changes in the time of economic crisis. The statistical database for this study was the Rosstat data posted on the official website of the Federal State Statistics Service. We found that in the time of crisis the interregional differences in unemployment rates decreased and in the period of recovery growth, they increased. The interregional differentiation was on the rise because some individual regions used new points of growth. The study was conducted at the Institute of Agrarian Problems of RAS with the financial support from the Russian Scientific Foundation (RSF), project # 14-18-02801.

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Convergence in West German Regional Unemployment Rates

Cited by 31 publications

References 49 publications

When Spatial Equilibrium Fails: Is Place-Based Policy Second Best?

When Spatial Equilibrium Fails: Is Place-Based Policy Second Best?

Is East Germany catching up? A time series perspective

Youth Unemployment in Russia: Models of Interregional Differentiation

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