20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is still a strong division between the economies and labour markets of eastern and western Germany. In the last few years, however, unemployment has been reduced especially in the East, even in times of economic crisis. Within eastern Germany a...

This paper analyses the entire wage effects of unemployment for an especially long observation period. In a three‐step approach, the wage reaction at the national level (wage‐setting curve or aggregate wage equation) is added to the reaction at the regional level (wage curve). Spatial models...

Der Eingliederungserfolg in Beschäftigung von Personen, die dem Rechtskreis der Sozialgesetzbücher (SGB) II und III unterliegen, wird stark vom Zusammenspiel der regional unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen beeinflusst. Im Rahmen seiner Typi-sierung von SGB-II-Trägern identifiziert das IAB...