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Fig. 6

From: Broadband internet availability and establishments’ employment growth in Germany: evidence from instrumental variables estimations

Fig. 6

Municipalities above vs. below the 4.2 km threshold (distance to assigned MDF). The map shows Western German municipalities without an own MDF. Municipalities colored in green are less than 4.2 km from their assigned MDF. Municipalities colored in yellow are more than 4.2 km from their assigned MDF. Distance between each municipality and its assigned MDF is measured using the municipality’s geographic centroid. The strikingly high number of sample municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate in the Southwest and their low number in North-Rhine Westphalia in the West is due to extreme differences in municipality size. North-Rhine Westphalian municipalities are on average ten times as large as those in Rhineland-Palatinate (86 vs. 8.6 square km). Thus, there are a very large (small) number of municipalities without an own MDF in Rhineland-Palatinate (North-Rhine Westphalia). Data source: Deutsche Telekom

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