"This paper discusses the impact of European Regional Policy on German Regional State Aid from past until today and considers differences and similarities in the development of European and National Regional State Aid. It is shown how rules and guidelines were adapted to the enlargement of the...

"Der Bund-Länder-Planungsausschuß der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe 'Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur' hat am 25. März 1999 die GA-Fördergebiete für die Jahre 2000 bis 2003 neu festgelegt. In diesen ausgewiesenen strukturschwachen Regionen sollen mit Hilfe regionaler...

"Over the past years, the demand for employees in the health care sector has increased. Due to the demographic change, the demand for skilled employees can be expected to continue to rise in this sector. Against this background, this article tries to study empirically the manpower requirements...

"For many years there have been lively debates about the integration of women in the labour market, especially in terms of equality between women and men or the integration of women in management positions. In 2008 the data from the IAB Establishment Panel (Fischer et al. 2009) shed light on the...

"Der durchschnittliche Bruttojahreslohn pro Beschäftigtem in einer Region liefert wertvolle Informationen über die regionalen Verdienstmöglichkeiten. Bedingt durch das Meldeverfahren an die Sozialversicherungsträger werden die Einkommen jedoch nicht mit ihrer vollen Höhe erfasst, sondern...

"Almost twenty years after German reunification there are still huge income disparities between western and eastern regions in Germany. The main purpose of the paper is to show how social transfer payments reduce these inter-regional disparities. In a first step we examine inequalities in the...

"Funktionale Regionen, sogenannte regionale Arbeitsmärkte, spielen in der nationalen und internationalen Regionalforschung eine besondere Rolle. Im Gegensatz zu administrativen Regionen ermöglichen sie es, wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten und Pendlerverflechtungen in geeigneter Weise abzubilden....

"There are two delineations of German labour market regions. On the one hand the 'Gemeinschaftsaufgabe Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur' uses labour market regions for business development programs. Their demarcation is based on 270 functional areas after a modification for the...