"The paper analyses movements in the unemployment rate of West German districts in the period 1992-2004 by the chain reaction theory of unemployment (CRT). The estimations show that unemployment movements are generated together by lagged adjustment processes and by exogenous shocks. We find that...

Die klassische Wachstumsanalyse beantwortet zwar die Frage nach der Entwicklung einer Region, kann aber keine Antwort für die Ursachen des Wachstums geben. Die hier angewandte Shift-Share-Analyse erlaubt, die Entwicklung auf die Branchenstruktur oder auf regionale Besonderheit zurückzuführen....

"The results for labour demand shocks at the place of residence for German Federal States and districts according to the model of regional adjustment developed by Blanchard/Katz (1992) are in line with other studies in this field. They suggest that adjustment to region-specific shocks in the...

"In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper considers different interpolation methods for interpolating attributes from German labor office districts to German counties and vice versa. In...

"The paper analyses movements in the unemployment rate of West German districts in the period 1992-2004 by the chain reaction theory of unemployment (CRT). The estimations show that unemployment movements are generated together by lagged adjustment processes and by exogenous shocks. We find that...

"The results for labour demand shocks at the place of residence for German Federal States and districts according to the model of regional adjustment developed by Blanchard/Katz (1992) are in line with other studies in this field. They suggest that adjustment to region-specific shocks in the...

"This paper provides a review of theoretical and empirical research on the concept of policy styles as well as a discussion on the merits of its integration in impact analysis of labour market policies. We argue for focusing on administrative organizations' heterogeneity in the implementation...

In zahlreichen Ländern werden sowohl vom Wirtschaftsministerium als auch vom Landwirtschaftsministerium Programme der ländlichen Entwicklung unterhalten. In der Schweiz werden heute sowohl unter dem Dach der Neuen Regionalpolitik als auch im Rahmen des Landwirtschaftsgesetzes Projekte zur...