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Petrik Runst presents research findings at the annual meeting of economists from the ifh Göttingen, the Chambers of Crafts, and the Central Association of German Crafts.

A new publication in Regional Science and Urban Economics by Jan Cornelius Peters and other authors shows that the wages of workers in rural and urban areas grow at different rates and that this is related to the type of work experience gained.

At the 22nd meeting of the RKW Advisory Board "Start-ups" in Eschborn, Christian Hundt gave a keynote speech on the characteristics of start-up activity in rural areas and then discussed political options for action with the members of the Advisory Board.

The AfD vote share is influenced not only by cultural factors but also by a variety of regional factors, such as aging and regional emigration. When these are controlled for, the East-West difference partially fades, and previously unknown regional patterns can be identified instead.

Ann Hipp looks back with satisfaction on the final meeting of the scientific network funded by the DFG over three years. The final event took place at ifo Dresden and was organized and chaired by her.

Christian Bergholz and co-authors from the University of Hanover and ZEW in Mannheim have investigated the conditions under which digital companies are founded and have now published the results in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights.

Jan Cornelius Peters presented current research findings on regional wage differences at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. This year's congress of the European Economic Association and the European meeting of the Econometric Society took place there from August 26 to 30.

Together with co-authors from the Institute for Employment Research, Jan Cornelius Peters has for the first time investigated the influence of return migration initiatives on the return migration of workers to rural regions. The findings have now been published in the Journal of Economic Geography.

Christian Hundt and Angelika Krehl contribute the chapter "Fundamentals of Economics" to the classic agricultural textbook "Business Studies and Farm Management".

In a joint publication by the Thünen Institute with the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at Leibniz University Hannover and the University of Utrecht, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable mobility behavior in the Hannover region are examined.