Das immer drängender werdende Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland macht eine intensive Diskussion über Ursachen der Arbeitslosigkeit und Möglichkeiten zu deren Bekämpfung unabdingbar. Von vielen Seiten wird mehr denn je gefordert, daß die staatliche Arbeitsmarkt- und...

Support of training has been one of the most important instruments of active labor market policy in East Germany. This paper attempts an evaluation of the effects of training on future employment and future wages of trainees. The analysis distinguishes between measures within and outside of the...

This paper is concerned with the effects of training on the future employment probability of trainees. During the transformation process of the East German economy after reunification, employment decreased by a large amount. Therefore, many workers in East Germany participated in training...

This paper discusses whether the dominant position of the Old Laender's economy in the unified Germany hampers the reemergence of industrial production in the New Laender. For that purpose productivity differences are explained by specialization advantages of industrial agglomerations, which are...

Local productivity externalities play an important role in the recent literature on economic geography and regional growth. But apart from case studies there is only weak empirical evidence. Using a simple theoretic framework the paper derives two empirical implications of those externalities...

Verschiedene Verbindungen zwischen lokalen Kapitaleinheiten können Komplementaritäten in den Standortentscheidungen begründen: Skalenerträge und Spillovereffekte, Input- Output-Beziehungen bei Transportkosten und EinkommenskreislaufefTekte. In einem stilisierten Modell wird ihr simultaner...

The peculiarities of the German system of labor relations suggest, that the efficiency wage hypothesis stating an inverse relation between local wages and local unemployment should be related to sectoral wage bargaining on the national level. For that purpose a theoretical model is presented...

Support of training has been a very important instrument of active labor market policy in East Germany. This paper attempts an evaluation of the employment and wage effects of training supported by public income maintenance outside of a firm. After describing the labor market developments in...

This study evaluates the short-run employment effects of general basic courses, German language courses, and computer courses which were held for unemployed persons in the Swiss canton St. Gallen between January and April 1998. It is based on administrative data provided by the Swiss State...