Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/196561 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Wirtschaftsdienst [ISSN:] 1613-978X [Volume:] 99 [Issue:] Sonderheft [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 49-55
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Das Ruhrgebiet ist seit den 1980er Jahren Zielregion regionaler Fördermaßnahmen von Land, Bund und EU. Bis heute hat die Regionalpolitik allerdings keine Trendwende bewirkt. Die multizentrische Region nahm nicht am Aufschwung der urbanen Räume seit der Jahrtausendwende teil; sie verlor Einwohner und fällt in der Wirtschaftskraft hinter den anderen großen Agglomerationen des Landes zurück. Mit 16 % industriellem Wertschöpfungsanteil liegt die ehemals führende Industrieregion erheblich unter dem deutschen Durchschnitt, ohne dass sich moderne Dienstleistungen bisher zu einem alternativen Wachstumstreiber entwickelt hätten.
Abstract (Translated): 
The Ruhr Area is Germany's biggest agglomeration with more than five million inhabitants. Its ongoing structural problems with high unemployment and sluggish growth are therefore not only a burden on the state of North Rhine Westphalia, but for the country as a whole. The multicentre region did not participate in the boom of German urban regions, which started in 2000; instead it has continued to lose inhabitants until the immigration surge in 2015. The region's economy is not as strong as the German average, which holds also for its value added in manufacturing, despite being the former industrial powerhouse of Germany. While the Ruhr Area was still prosperous in the 1960s after the first coal mining crisis (and therefore was not entitled to regional subsidies), it became a target region for federal support in the 1980s. But even 30 years later, regional policy wasn't able to bring about more dynamic change.
JEL: 
R11
O18
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Document Type: 
Article

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