This working paper presents a comparison of the employment structure and development among different types of districts … that in Western Germany the rural districts of minor density could not keep up with the employment growth in the remaining … contributions to research in the field of regional employment disparities clarifies that the differences are driven by a large …

provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … way. The present paper deals with the question if and how the employment careers of West German women with at least one … 1956-65) is carried out. It is of interest whether and how the employment patterns have changed. Another question is what …

economic performance and the labour market based on the results of the employment accounts of the Federal Statistical Office. A …

The Labor Market and Employment (Handbook article). The labor market differs from typical markets in important ways. We … find job competition and collective mechanisms that set wages and working conditions. Changes in employment bring about … changes in wages and prices and entail political and monetary responses. The goals of price stability and full employment …

flexibility of the labor market increases both the employment rate and the rate of participation in the labor force. A … conservative estimate suggests that if France were to make its labor markets as flexible as those in the US, its employment rate … would increase 1.6 percentage points, or 14% of the employment gap between the two countries. The estimated effects are …

The present work discusses possible methodological approaches for the assessment of employment effects of rural … causal knowledge of measures' intervention logics in order to reliably identify employment effects. Since such a sound …