"1993 wurde die Gebietskulisse der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe 'Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftstruktur' (GA) für die kommenden drei Jahre (1994-1996) neu festgelegt. Die neuen Länder (ohne Westberlin) gehören danach weiterhin als Ganzes zum GA-Fördergebiet. In den alten Ländern wurde das...

"1993 wurde die Gebietskulisse der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe 'Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftstruktur' (GA) für die kommenden drei Jahre (1994-1996) neu festgelegt. Die neuen Länder (ohne Westberlin) gehören danach weiterhin als Ganzes zum GA-Fördergebiet. In den alten Ländern wurde das...

A casual look at regional unemployment rates reveals that there are vast differences which cannot be explained by different institutional settings. Our paper attempts to trace these differences in the regions' labour market performance back to the regions' specialisation in products that are...

This paper reconsiders the West German wage curve using the employment statistics of the Federal Employment Services of Germany (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. This updates the earlier study by Baltagi and Blien (1998) by 15 years for a more disaggregated 326 regions of...

This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam, based on surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005. By including the time dimension and surveying samples with over 6000 individuals respectively it is possible to identify precisely the...

"This paper reconsiders the West German wage curve using the employment statistics of the Federal Employment Services of Germany (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. This updates the earlier study by Baltagi and Blien (1998) by 15 years for a more disaggregated 326 regions of...

"This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam, based on surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005. By including the time dimension and surveying samples with over 6000 individuals respectively it is possible to identify precisely the...

"A casual look at regional unemployment rates reveals that there are vast differences which cannot be explained by different institutional settings. Our paper attempts to trace these differences in the regions' labour market performance back to the regions' specialisation in products that are...

"Themes of the paper are differences in unemployment rates between East and West Germany and the spatial differentiation in the East. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is still a strong division between the economies and labour markets of Eastern and Western Germany. In the last...

"In the paper the results of a test of Blanchflower and Oswald's wage curve hypothesis are presented. The wage curve is a non-linear inverse relationship between the regional unemployment rate and the regional wage level: high unemployment is associated with rather low wages. For the theoretical...