We analyze the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment rate and the regional concentration of an industry against the background of several determinants...

In our paper, we analyze the impact of German employment protection legislation on the firms’ employment adjustment patterns. We explore a reform of the Protection Against Dismissal Act (PADA) in 2004 that decreased the employment protection in small establishments and thus generated a...

"Over the past few years the situation on the international labour markets has changed dramatically. While countries such as the United States or Great Britain are being affected by increasing wage differentials, the unemployment figures in most continental European countries are on the rise. In...

In dem Beitrag werden zunächst Ansätze und Methoden von Evaluationsstudien beschrieben. Danach werden die Beiträge des Schwerpunktheftes vorgestellt. Diese verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit der Evaluation aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik, diskutieren die damit zusammenhängenden methodischen...

This paper analyses the determinants of different innovation types. Beside a wide range of firm characteristics also the effects of regional factors are estimated using three-level random effect logit models which account for the clustered and longitudinal structure of the data. The analyses...