The number of commuters and the distances of home-to-work travel have increased in recent decades. Based on a previous study that proposed a new approach for delineating functional labour market regions, this paper focuses on the temporal stability of delineations of labour market regions in...

We investigate whether economic functional regions capture spatial clustering of core economic indicators better than administrative regions. For this purpose, we use hierarchical linear models to measure the degree of homogenization of different regional delineations. Our results for Germany...

Dieser Forschungsbericht umfasst die Ergebnisse des Gutachtens "Aktualisierung von Regionalindikatoren für die deutschen Arbeitsmarktregionen". Das Gutachten wurde nach Beschluss des Unterausschusses der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe "Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur" am 14.10.2008 im...