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Trade, Growth and Development

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May 2021

Future Technology Hubs or Backwater? Lessons on Structural Change from Germany’s Coal Regions

Wolfgang KELLER, Ehsan VALLIZADEH, Simon JANSSEN
This paper studies the structural adjustment from natural resource-intensive industry- to knowledge-based growth. The closure of coal mines in Germany over 1975-2017 produces local labor market shocks that reveal how the presence of natural resources and international competition may affect the rise...
Keywords: Mining, spillover effects, Employment, labour mobility
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