Convergence of economic structures of german cities Authors Stefan Niermann Institut für Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung, Universität Hannover, Königsworther Platz 1, 30167, Hannover DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03182960 Abstract This paper tests whether the economic structures of german cities converged to a representative structure within the time period from 1990 to 1998. To do this, data describing the economic structure of german cities is used. It can be shown that the economic structures of German cities converged statistically significant to a representative structure. From the perspective of an individual city this means that those sectors with a below average number of employees will on the average perform better — grow more or shrink less — than other sectors. Downloads Download data is not yet available. References Erber, Georg; Hagemann, Harald (2002): Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung. In: Zimmermann, K. F. (Hrsg.): Neue Entwicklungen in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft. Heidelberg: Physika, S. 321–369 Klemmer, Paul (1995): Kritische Bestandsaufnahme von Städte-und Regionenvergleichen. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Frohn, Joachim; Niermann, Stefan; Niermann, Ute (2000): Der Einfluss von Standortfaktoren auf die sektorale Entwicklung — Eine quantitative Analyse am Beispiel des Wirtschaftsstandortes Bielefeld. Essen. = Schriften und Materialien zur Regionalforschung des RWI, H. 5 Möller, Joachim (2000):, Spezialisierungs- und Konzentrationstrends in einem Europa der Regionen. In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung (58) H. 5, S. 363–372 Porter, Michael E. (1990): The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New York Sala-i-Martin, Xavier (1996): The Classical Approach to Convergence Analysis. In: Economic Journal, Vol. 106, S. 1019–1036 Smith, Gary (1997): Do Statistics Test Scores regress towards the Mean? In: Chance, Vol. 10 (4), S. 42–45 Downloads PDF (German) Published 2003-07-31 Issue Vol. 61 No. 4 (2003) Section Research Article License Copyright (c) 2003 RuR Editors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.Niermann S. Convergence of economic structures of german cities. RuR [Internet]. 2003 Jul. 31 [cited 2025 Dec. 16];61(4):252–258. Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/1587 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Share
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