Drifting together or falling apart? The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael

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“…Colavecchio, Curran, and Funke (2005) arrive at the same conclusion in their study using GDP per capita levels across German counties. After 1994, movements in the GDP distributions are not statistically significant on a year-after-year basis.…”

Section: Testing For Time Invariancesupporting

confidence: 54%

“…They find only weak evidence for conditional convergence in the year 2000. The study related closest to ours is the one by Colavecchio, Curran, and Funke (2005), which concludes that the relative income distribution in unified Germany appears to be stratifying into a trimodal/bimodal distribution.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While Colavecchio, Curran, and Funke (2005) examine convergence of GDP per capita across German counties, our main focus lies on GDP per worker, mainly for two reasons.…”

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The analysis by Colavecchio, Curran, and Funke (2005) and ours use a similar econometric framework to analyze the convergence hypothesis. The general idea is to examine how the entire cross-sectional distribution of GDP evolves over time.…”

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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany

Juessen

2008

Empir Econ

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Section: Testing For Time Invariancesupporting

confidence: 54%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While Colavecchio, Curran, and Funke (2005) examine convergence of GDP per capita across German counties, our main focus lies on GDP per worker, mainly for two reasons.…”

Section: Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany

Juessen

2008

Empir Econ

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“…The German economy is equally split into concentrating and deconcentrating sectors (SÜDEKUM 2005). Moreover, like the EU as a whole, a relatively small number of high-income areas are growing further away from the rest (COLAVECCHIO et al 2005). This is visible in the kernel density estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for West German planning regions (Figure 1), which stretch out further at the right tail of the distribution in 2000.…”

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Economic Growth of Agglomerations and Geographic Concentration of Industries: Evidence for West Germany

Geppert¹,

Gornig²,

Werwatz³

2008

Regional Studies

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Geppert K., Gornig M. and Werwatz A. (2008) Economic growth of agglomerations and geographic concentration of industries: evidence for West Germany, Regional Studies. During the two decades between 1980 and 2000, there was no clear overall trend of economic convergence or divergence among West German regions. However, a number of regions that were already rich – generally large agglomerations – had succeeded in further distancing themselves from the rest. At the same time, knowledge-intensive services are identified as industries whose geographical concentration was initially high and continued to increase. Logistic and non-parametric regression estimates show that the higher a region's share of employment in these service sectors, the greater the probability that a region is classified as being rich and becoming even richer. Geppert K., Gornig M. et Werwatz A. (2008) La croissance économique des agglomérations et la concentration géographique industrielle: des preuves provenant de l'Allemagne de l'Ouest, Regional Studies. Pendant deux décennies, à savoir de 1980 à l'an 2000, aucune tendance globale ni à la convergence, ni à la divergence économiques parmi les régions de l'Allemagne de l'Ouest n'est évidente. Cependant, bon nombre de régions riches – en règle générale de grandes agglomérations–ont réussi à s'éloigner davantage des autres. En même temps, on identifie des services à intensité de connaissance dont la concentration géographique était élevée au départ et a continué d'augmenter. Des estimations de régression logistique et non paramétrique montrent que plus la part de l'emploi dans ces services s'avère élevée, plus il est probable qu'une région se classe comme riche et en voie de s'enrichir. Convergence régionale Services à intensité de connaissance Liens locaux spécifiques à une industrie Régressions non-paramétriques Geppert K., Gornig M. und Werwatz A. (2008) Wirtschaftswachstum von Ballungsgebieten und geografische Konzentration von Branchen: Belege für Westdeutschland, Regional Studies. In den zwei Jahrzehnten von 1980 bis 2000 gab es keinen klaren Gesamttrend der ökonomischen Konvergenz oder Divergenz unter den westdeutschen Regionen. Allerdings gelang es mehreren bereits wohlhabenden Regionen–in der Regel großen Ballungsgebieten –, sich noch weiter vom Rest zu distanzieren. Gleichzeitig identifizieren wir wissensintensive Dienstleistungen als Branchen, deren geografische Konzentration schon zu Beginn hoch lag und weiter gewachsen ist. In logistischen und nichtparametrischen Regressionsschätzungen zeigt sich, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass eine Region als wohlhabend klassifiziert wird und noch wohlhabender wird, umso höher liegt, je größer in dieser Region der Anteil der Arbeitnehmer in diesen Dienstleistungssektoren ausfällt. Regionale Konvergenz Wissensintensive Dienstleistungen Branchenspezifische lokale Verknüpfungen Logistische Regressionen Nichtparametrische Regressionen Geppert K., Gornig M. y Werwatz A. (2008) Crecimiento económico de aglomeraciones y concentraciones geográficas de las ...

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Distribution dynamics of regional GDP per employee in unified Germany

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We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has been achieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distribution of GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures. While in the first year after unification, the two-component distributions were clearly separated and bimodal, corresponding to the East and West German districts, respectively, in the following years they started to merge showing only one mode. Still, using the recently developed EM-test for homogeneity in normal mixtures, the hypothesis of just a single normal component for the whole distribution is clearly rejected for all years. A Posterior analysis shows that about a third of the East German districts were assigned to the richer component in 2006, thus catching up to levels of the West. The growth rate of a mover district is about 1% point higher than the growth rate of a non-mover district which had the same initial level of GDP per employee.

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Drifting together or falling apart? The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany

A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany

Economic Growth of Agglomerations and Geographic Concentration of Industries: Evidence for West Germany

Distribution dynamics of regional GDP per employee in unified Germany

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