"In the context of the IAB Job Vacancy Survey (EGS) firms were asked if they had to cancel recruitment processes for open vacancies in the year of the survey because no suitable candidates were found. It remains ambiguous if this cancellation means the actual ending of the firms' recruitment...

Im Rahmen der IAB-Erhebung des Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots (EGS) werden Betriebe gefragt, ob sie im Jahr der Befragung die Personalsuche für offene Stellen abbrechen mussten, weil keine geeigneten Bewerber zu finden waren. Unklar bleibt bisher jedoch, ob dieser Suchabbruch das...

Regional politicians regard the cluster concept as a key factor for promoting regional economic performance. They refer to a comprehensive set of theoretical and empirical literature which provides the clusters' positive impact on regional development. Recent studies dealing with that topic...

Industriellen Clustern wird in der ökonomischen Literatur vielfach die Rolle von Motoren der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung von Regionen zugeschrieben. Dabei existieren unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen innerhalb der empirischen Untersuchung dieses Phänomens. Überwogen bisher spezifische...

We use a combination of measures of spatial concentration, qualitative input-output analysis and innovation interaction matrices to identify the horizontal and vertical dimension of industrial clusters in Saxony in 2005. We describe the spatial allocation of the industrial clusters and show...

This article analyses how regional employment growth in Germany is affected by related variety, unrelated variety and the functions a region performs in the production process. Following the related variety literature, we argue that regions benefit from the existence of related activities that...

This paper explores the impact of industrial clusters on regional growth at level of German labour market regions within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to horizontal interconnections. Based on works of Schnabl (2000)...