I analyze the effects of further training subsidies for low-skilled employees on individual labor market outcomes in Germany for the period from 2007 to 2012. Using detailed administrative data, I exploit cross-regional variation in the conditional policy styles of local employment agencies and...

Active labour-market policy (ALMP) not only affects the labour-market success of participants. Due to indirect effects, they might also affect the job perspectives of non-participants. Hence, even if ALMP programmes have a positive effect for the participants, this does not mean that ALMP...

This paper examines the cross-border labor market in the French-German Upper Rhine Region. Based on shortage analyses conducted for both sides of the border, a fixed effects panel regression estimates the impact of changing labor market situations on the number of French frontier workers....

Theorien der Regionalforschung sagen voraus, dass Betriebe von ihrer gegenseitigen räumlichen Nähe profitieren, wenn sie in einer Lieferbeziehung stehen, einen gemeinsamen Arbeitsmarkt haben, oder es zur Übertragung von Wissen kommt (die drei Marshall'schen Kräfte). Während die Existenz...