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Economists (should) care about regions! On the one hand this is true because macroeconomic shocks have vastly different effects across regions. The pressing topics of robotization
and artificial intelligence, Brexit, or U.S. tariffs will affect Würzburg differently than Berlin,
implying varying interests among its population, firms and politicians. On the other hand,
shocks in individual regions, such as inventions, bankruptcies or the attraction of a major
plant can, through trade and input-output linkages, magnify to aggregate effects of macroe-
conomic importance. Yet, regional heterogeneities in Germany and the complicated network
of linkages that connect regions are still not well documented nor understood. A fact that
is especially true for local labor markets that are of core interest to regional policy makers
and that also feature substantial heterogeneity.
This thesis provides a thorough quantification of such heterogeneities and an in-depth analysis of the sources and mechanisms that drive these differences.