and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

This paper deals with the estimation of employment equations for Germany, which are to be used for forecasting and … studies for West Germany and Germany, respectively. The authors find that the elasticity of employment with respect to output … is robustly estimated and can therefore be restricted to one. The elasticity of employment with respect to the real wage …

indicator for employment. Discussing current trends in vacancies, this is often assumed: An increase in the number of job … vacancies gets linked to good prospects for employment. What has been missing is empirical evidence that is grounded on … hires. The latter were drawn from the statistics of the German Federal Employment Agency. The effect is strongest with a …

In this paper, a set of neural network (NN) models is developed to compute short-term forecasts of regional employment … compares two NN methodologies. First, it uses NNs to forecast regional employment in both the former West and East Germany …. Each model implemented computes single estimates of employment growth rates for each German district, with a 2-year …