Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76076 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 690
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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.
Subjects: 
regional economic growth
human capital
Germany
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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