"This paper deals with company expectations for 1997 with regard to employment. For this, details from the IAB establishment panel are examined separately for East (1st wave) and West (4th wave) with the aid of descriptive and multivariate methods. It can be seen that companies of individual...

"In literature of agricultural economics the view is frequently held that the structural change in the agricultural sector, in particular in the form of adjustment in the size and structure of the labour stock, follows economic determining factors to only a very limited extent, and therefore...

"Die im Jahr 1998 durchgeführte Erhebung des IAB-Betriebspanels hatte 'Innovationen im Betrieb' als Schwerpunktthema. Diese Studie analysiert empirisch die kurzfristigen Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen und den damit zusammenhängenden organisatorischen Änderungen in...

"Despite the currently improving economic forecasts, the present labour market situation in Germany does not look too good. Especially the high and further increasing unemployment in eastern Germany is a key problem for current economic policy. Rigidities on the labour market, which manifest...

"The article examines the connection between export and employment from a macro-theoretical point of view on the basis of econometric analyses. The focus of interest is the question as to why the employment multiplier effect expected as a result of the strong export development, has so far...

This paper compares the structure and the development of new firm formation activity in three German regions. The two East German regions, Dresden and Rostock, show significantly higher start-up rates than the West German region Karlsruhe. The analysis of entry cohorts reveals that not only the...

Türkiye’nin doðu ve batý bölgeleri arasýnda kiþi baþýna gelir düzeyi açýsýndan doðu aleyhine önemli bir farklýlýk vardýr. Bu durum doðudan batýya doðru göçe yol açmakta ve geliþmiþ yörelerde baþta çarpýk kentleþme ve asayiþ olmak üzere önemli sorunlara neden...

European cohesion policy entails predominantly the funding of infrastructure and employment projects in lagging regions of EU Member States. It involves the distribution of more than 35 billion euro annually, making it the second most important EU policy in budgetary terms. Its main aim is to...