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The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development in Germany
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I study a ten-year Bavarian policy that relocated 60 state agencies and around 3,000 mostly high-skilled public-sector jobs from metropolitan areas to lagging regions. Using administrative employer–employee data, I find that private employment rises in receiving regions without corresponding losses in the cities sending public jobs. I develop a quantitative spatial model with public- and private-sector agglomeration spillovers to explain this pattern and quantify how reallocating government employment reshapes productivity, spatial economic activity, and welfare.
Presentations
12th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics; 10th CGDE Doctoral Workshop; IEB Barcelona IWIP Seminar; AQR Research Seminar; University of Barcelona (invited); 13th European UEA Meeting; 2024 RSA Annual Conference; Aix-Marseille Research Seminar (invited); NBER Conference on Place-Based Policies; 14th European UEA Meeting; 6th World Labor Conference in Toronto; VfS Congress; Public Economics Colloquium Leipzig (invited); CREST Urban Workshop; CEPR 2025 Paris Symposium; IAB Research Colloquium (invited); 2nd Early Career Women in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics at LSE; SOEP Brown Bag; UEA Summer School; IZA@LISER Summer School 2026; 2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics; EALE 2026.
Upcoming: UEA North American Meeting 2026.