LIVE HERE…? NO, THANK YOU! MIGRATION AND ITS CAUSES IN MOENCHENGLADBACH – A CITY FOR LIVING AND WORKING

Rüdiger HAMM

Head of the Niederrhein Institute for Regional and Structural Research (NIERS) at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Richard-Wagner-Straße 140, 41065 Moenchengladbach, +4921611866411

ruediger.hamm@hs-niederrhein.de

Geogr. Katja KEGGENHOFF

Research Assistant at the Niederrhein Institute for Regional and Structural Research (NIERS) at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Richard-Wagner-Straße 140, 41065 Moenchengladbach, +4921611866424, katja.keggenhoff@hs-niederrhein.de

Angelika JAGER

Research Assistant at the Niederrhein Institute for Regional and Structural Research (NIERS) at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Richard-Wagner-Straße 140, 41065 Moenchengladbach, +4921611866432, angelika.a.jaeger@gmail.com

The original version of this document was drafted in German and published in the journal RaumPlanung 185 / 3-2016 of the `Informationskreis für Raumplanung e.V.´ (IfR).

Abstract

One of the essential tasks and goals of local policy makers and administrations is to provide a high quality of life and work for citizens and employees in a specified location. This especially applies in times of demographic change, in which cities are increasingly facing the challenge of an aging and shrinking population in the inter-municipal competition. Hence, key questions arise, such as: Which factors determine choice of location of private households? How are these factors evaluated in the living and working area of Moenchengladbach? In order to answer these questions, in a first step the migration processes of the city of Moncheng-ladbach are examined based on secondary statistics. In a second step, three primary statistical sur-veys are conducted in order to reveal information on which crucial factors influence the choice of residence for the observed migration processes and how the quality of Moenchengladbach as a resi-dential location is evaluated.

Keywords: Migration, Urban development, Locational factors, Citizens’ satisfaction, Job mobility

JEL classification: R21, R32

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THE CHAOTIC UNEMPLOYMENT RATE GROWTH MODEL: EURO AREA

Vesna D. JABLANOVIC

Professor of Economics, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Nemanjina 6 , 11081  Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

vesnajab@ptt.rs

Abstract

The unemployment rate in the Euro Area fall to 10.026 per cent in 2016. Among the Member States, the lowest unemployment rates were recorded in Germany and Malta. On the other hand, the highest unemployment rates were observed in Greece and Spain. Unemployment rates have fallen from their postcrisis peaks, but remain high.  The basic aims of this paper  are: firstly,  to provide a relatively simple chaotic unemployment rate growth model that is capable of generating stable equilibria, cycles, or chaos, and secondly, to to analyze the unemployment rate growth stability in the period 1991-2015 in the Euro Area.. This paper confirms stable growth of the unemployment rate in the Euro Area in the observed period.

Keywords: Unemployment rate, Economic Growth, Euro Area

JEL classification: J64, 040, 052

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METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE DYNAMIC MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE INNOVATIVE MULTICLUSTERS

Napolskikh Dmitri LEONIDOVICH

Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Management and Law Volga State University of Technology Yoshkar-Ola, pl. Lenin, 3

NapolskihDL@yandex.ru

Abstract

The study of the processes of development of the institutional environment of the innovative multiclusters allows to determine the stage of its life cycle and the direction of the development of the processes of clustering the economic system of the region. The models of interaction among the economic agents of the innovative multicluster at the various stages of development of its institutional environment, proposed by the author, allow to monitor the effectiveness of the regional cluster policy over the long term. The study shows that the structure of the interactions among the economic agents in the framework of this model of formation and development of the innovative multiclusters is due to the institutional aspects of the regional cluster policy. The classification of the economic agents of the innovative multicluster, which are the main subjects of the processes of modernization of the institutional environment of the regional economic system, is provided.

Keywords: economic modeling, cluster policy, institutional environment

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