Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.310540

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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

21 Pages Posted: 27 May 2002

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Michael Funke

University of Hamburg - Department of Economics; Tallinn University of Technology (TUT)

Annekatrin Niebuhr

Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI)

Date Written: March 2002

Abstract

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 that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns.

Keywords: Regional Economic Growth, Human Capital, Germany

JEL Classification: J24, O40, R11, C31

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Funke, Michael and Niebuhr, Annekatrin, Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany (March 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=310540 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.310540