Threshold effects and regional economic growth

Abstract

"The authors study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. The basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West Germany regions. 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." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Funke, M. & Niebuhr, A. (2001): Threshold effects and regional economic growth. Evidence from West Germany. (HWWA discussion paper 136), Hamburg, 28 p.