Eine Betrachtung der regionalen Beschäftigungsentwicklung in Deutschland zeigt erhebliche Differenzen zwischen den regionalen Regionen auf. Der Band bestimmt die Faktoren für diese ausgeprägten regionalen Unterschiede und Entwicklungen. Die Autorin konzentriert sich hierbei auf betriebs- und...

This paper investigates whether labor mobility varies with the degree of agglomeration and, if so, how the differences can be explained. The theoretical basis rests on the advantages agglomerations exhibit in providing a large pooled labor market, one of Marshall's famous three sources of...

This paper follows the industry employment histories of all individuals at some point affiliated with the declining German and dismantling Swedish shipbuilding industries 1970-2000. We analyse the situation of the individual workers leaving shipbuilding through investigating to what extent they...

Labor flows across industries reallocate resources and diffuse knowledge among economic activities. However, surprisingly little is known about the structure of such inter-industry flows. How freely do workers switch jobs among industries? Between which pairs of industries do we observe such...