The number of commuters and the distances of home-to-work travel have increased in recent decades. Based on a previous study that proposed a new approach for delineating functional labour market regions, this paper focuses on the temporal stability of delineations of labour market regions in...

Using a large panel microdata set for the time period 1992 to 2014, the paper analyses the long-run trends in German wage inequality for full-time workers. The approach differentiates by gender and region. The analysis confirms the result of other studies that show a sharp increase in wage...

Der Antrag der Volksinitiative "Für einen Mindestlohn von zehn Euro pro Stunde" in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Drucksache 6/1020 des Landtags Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) zielt auf einen bundesweit einheitlichen flächendeckenden Mindestlohn in Höhe von zehn Euro je Stunde, zu dessen Einführung das...