A casual look at regional unemployment rates reveals that there are vast differences which cannot be explained by different institutional settings. Our paper attempts to trace these differences in the regions' labour market performance back to the regions' specialisation in products that are...

"The article presents a study on the effects of regional unemployment on regional wages. Data from the IAB employment sample for the period 1981-1990 is used to estimate a multilevel model adapted to longitudinal analysis. The results confirm the existence of wage reactions. The resulting 'wage...

"The flexibility of European labour markets is widely discussed by researchers and politicians. To explore the reactions of wages to regional unemployment for the first time data from a national representative survey of establishments (the IAB Establishment Panel) has been used. The results...

"At a workshop at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) various studies were presented which attempt to test whether there is a German 'wage curve'. This is an inverse relationship between regional unemployment and regional wages. The occurrence of the wage curve can be explained by...

"Institutionalised in its own working group, the IAB carries out regional research in order to obtain findings about the development of regional disparities and about the way regional labour markets work. This research also helps in the analysis and discussion of regional labour market policy...

"This paper examines the effects of regional wage differentials on the development of employment in eastern Germany. For this, a model concept is briefly developed which is aimed at different market constellations of individual branches of the economy. The empirical approach used is a...

"The 'wage curve' describes the effects of regional unemployment on the regional wage level. After extensive international comparative research, Blanchflower and Oswald postulated that a doubling of regional unemployment reduced the wage level by 10 per cent. In contrast to that, although a wage...

"Reservation wages indicate the wage threshold for which individual workers are inclined to supply their working capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is true, the variation of reservation wages might be an...

"How do agglomeration effects influence the demand for labour? To answer this question, approaches on labour demand are linked with an analysis of the classic 'urbanization effect'. We use models for static and for dynamic labour demand to find out, whether agglomerations develop faster or...