In many countries labour market policy has to deal with fairly large and persistent regional labour market disparities. In the case of Germany, parts of the country are affected by a deep unemployment crisis whereas others show nearly full employment. Since these disparities cannot be reduced to...

A common problem of regional policy is the distribution of funds to regional units. To follow the specific purpose of this budgeting process in a rational way this is often done in a formula allocation on the basis of official statistics. In Germany, measures of active labour market policy...

In a project group of the Federal Employment Service, two classification systems were developed for categorizing employment office areas, one with five and the other with twelve types. The former is intended for the development of strategies of labour market policy; the latter serves to...

In dem Beitrag werdem räumlichen Arbeitsmarktstrukturen, die sich in Ostdeutschland während der Transformationsphase herausgebildet haben, anhand der Berufstätigenerhebung von 1989 und der Beschäftigten- und Arbeitslosenstatistik der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit vom Juni 1993 untersucht. "In...

"Institutionalised in its own working group, the IAB carries out regional research in order to obtain findings about the development of regional disparities and about the way regional labour markets work. This research also helps in the analysis and discussion of regional labour market policy...

Um die Arbeitsmarktverhältnisse vor Ort bei der Steuerung und Zielkontrolle angemessen berücksichtigen zu können, nutzt die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) Agenturtypisierungen, die das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) eigens für diesen Zweck erstellt hat. Mit ihnen...

In Deutschland bestehen große regionale Arbeitsmarktdisparitäten, die für den regionalen Erfolg arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen mitbestimmend sind. Um dies bei Leistungsvergleichen zwischen den Agenturen berücksichtigen zu können, wurde eine Typisierung der Agenturbezirke eingeführt....

In a project group of the Federal Employment Service, two classification systems were developed for categorizing employment office areas, one with five and the other with twelve types. The former is intended for the development of strategies of labour market policy; the latter serves to...

"A common problem of regional policy is the distribution of funds to regional units. To follow the specific purpose of this budgeting process in a rational way this is often done in a formula allocation on the basis of official statistics. In the paper this is shown with the example of funds for...