"In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

In a project group of the Federal Employment Service, two classification systems were developed for categorizing employment office areas, one with five and the other with twelve types. The former is intended for the development of strategies of labour market policy; the latter serves to...

In dem Beitrag werdem räumlichen Arbeitsmarktstrukturen, die sich in Ostdeutschland während der Transformationsphase herausgebildet haben, anhand der Berufstätigenerhebung von 1989 und der Beschäftigten- und Arbeitslosenstatistik der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit vom Juni 1993 untersucht. "In...

"Institutionalised in its own working group, the IAB carries out regional research in order to obtain findings about the development of regional disparities and about the way regional labour markets work. This research also helps in the analysis and discussion of regional labour market policy...

In many countries regional disparities are fairly large and persistent. Often classification systems are needed to provide succinct information on these disparities. This paper presents a model-based classification system which is designed to assess labour market conditions which influence the...

A common problem of regional policy is the distribution of funds to regional units. To follow the specific purpose of this budgeting process in a rational way this is often done in a formula allocation on the basis of official statistics. In Germany, measures of active labour market policy –...

"In order to take regional disparities into account appropriately in monitoring and controlling local employment agencies, since 2003 the Federal Employment Agency (BA) utilizes a classification scheme that has been specifically developed for this purpose by the IAB. Local employment agencies...

"Since 2006, the IAB develops classifications of job centres, which are regulated according to the Social Code Book (SGB) II. These classifications account for the fact that there are substantial disparities in the economic or social structure of German regions. These disparities affect the work...