Threshold effects and regional economic growth – Evidence from West Germany

Michael Funke and Annekatrin Niebuhr

No 136, HWWA Discussion Papers from Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)

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 the growth of West German 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.

Keywords: Regional Economic Growth; Human Capital; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 J24 O40 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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