"Der Bund-Länder-Planungsausschuß der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe 'Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur' hat am 25. März 1999 die GA-Fördergebiete für die Jahre 2000 bis 2003 neu festgelegt. In diesen ausgewiesenen strukturschwachen Regionen sollen mit Hilfe regionaler...

"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...

"We assess the relative impact of cultural norms and structural conditions on employment interruption patterns of new mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the regions differ markedly with regard to cultural...

The study reports comprehensively about further vocational training activities in the context of regular employment relationships in western and eastern Germany. In a comparative analysis of the participants in and the structure of further vocational training special emphasis is placed on a...

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...

This study evaluates the effects of job-creation measures (ABM) in Germany on the participants' individual integration into regular employment. An extensive and informative data set from the data stock of the Federal Employment Services (Bundesagentur für Arbeit - BA) is used for the study....

The paper explores wage setting practice in eastern Germany since unification. It gathers evidence to support the claim that economically non-viable collective agreements have fostered decentralized wage setting. First, we document the declining organization rates of both employers and...

This paper analyses the development of labour productivity of a sample of comparable small and medium-sized enterprises in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992-2002. It emerges that the surviving eastern German enterprises were able to raise their efficiency to just under 87 % of the...

New administrative data have recently permitted a differentiated and dynamic evaluation of the employment effects of measures of further vocational training in Germany which have been conducted in the context of active labour market policy. The data available for this purpose include firstly...

The promotion of business start-ups by formerly unemployed individuals has become an increasingly important instrument of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. With the introduction of the start-up subsidy (Existenzgründungszuschuss) on 1.1.2003 unemployed individuals who...