"This paper examines the effects of regional wage differentials on the development of employment in eastern Germany. For this, a model concept is briefly developed which is aimed at different market constellations of individual branches of the economy. The empirical approach used is a...

Following Blanchflower and Oswald, a “wage curve†describes the wage level as a downward-sloping convex curve of the regional unemployment rate. This article makes two major contributions in the analysis of the wage curve. First, it is recognized that potential endogeneity of the...

S<sc>uedekum</sc> J., W<sc>olf</sc> K. and B<sc>lien</sc> U. Cultural diversity and local labour markets, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The diversity of nationalities of foreign workers in the German labour market has increased considerably over the period 1995-2006. This paper investigates the effects of this diversity for native...

Der Kurzbericht fasst Ergebnisse des ENDOR-Projekts (Entwicklung der ostdeutschen Regionen) des IAB zusammen. Darin wurden die Determinanten der Regionalentwicklung in den neuen Bundesländern mit Hilfe regional stark differenzierter Daten der Beschäftigten-, Arbeitsmarkt- und...

Der Kurzbericht basiert auf Ergebnissen des ENDOR-Projekts (Entwicklung der ostdeutschen Regionen) des IAB. Darin wurden die Determinanten der Regionalentwicklung in den neuen Bundesländern mit Hilfe eines regionalen Entwicklungsmodells und stark differenzierter Daten der Beschäftigten- und...

In times of high and persistent unemployment, it has become one of the most important policy tasks in many developed countries to trigger a process of sustained employment growth. An illustrative example is the policy of regional “growth-poles”, which assumes that a local concentration of a...