Commuting patterns in Germany's metropolitan areas

Interesting article about the commuting patterns in Germany's major metropolitan areas. If you don't read German like myself, use Google Translator. 

credit: Paul Blickle for Zeit

Growth and Decline of Urban Agglomerations in Germany

Ben Hennig has posted an interesting analysis on the changing geographies of city regions in Germany.

Annual Population change, 2008-2013

[image credit: Ben Hennig]

Related Links

• The Growing and shrinking populations of Europe, 2001-2011
• Seven drivers to population growth in US
• Cities with the fastest growing populations
• Urbanization and Growth: A review of the past 500 years 

Waiting for the traffic light in Germany

As Tyler Cowen would put it: "The culture that is Germany".

"Brazil's Brain Strain"

this is a self-promotion post Our study on Skilled Labor Shortage in Brazil was reported by Knowledge Wharton this month. The full story here: Brazil's Brain Strain: Will a Skills Shortage Dampen Growth?

Talking about labor shortage, here is an interesting DER SPIEGEL article about skilled labor shortage in Eastern Germany (via Demography Matters).

I would also like to share this: The Chronicle of Higher Education created a very interesting interactive map on the the percentage of adults with college degrees over time in the USA. Check the map here. (Hat tip: Flowing Data)

1970 - % of adults with college degrees over time in the USA

2005-9 - % of adults with college degrees over time in the USA