This article analyses the evolution of employment rates by sector in Germany, in comparison with the European Union … averages. We explain the main causes of the differences of employment rates among regions, the inter-relation between the … evolution of employment and the spatial distribution of population, bearing in mind the inter-relation between industry and …

economic development, employment and real wages. The main conclusion is that Foreign Trade Deficits may lead to unsustainable …

-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a … particular region. To this end, we analyze and compare patterns of employment growth in the knowledge economy and its subsectors …-intensive employment growth. Our results show that with respect to knowledge-intensive employment, both the Randstad and the Rhine …

employment rates. We show that the main policies to increase employment rates are not opposite to the increase of wages, and even … the best labour policies, addressed to increase simultaneously labour productivity and employment, usually get both goals …, as to say an increase in real wages and in the employment rate. We also analyse the main econometric approaches to the …