variation in regional unemployment and in the development of employment is puzzling. Our explanation of this regional variation … leads to an expansion of employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if … series data on output, prices, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office and the …

are regions in which even during the crisis virtual full employment prevails (e.g. Munich Area) and others which face a … cycle. The more mature an industry is the less elastic is demand. Technical progress has two opposing effects on employment …. Increased productivity allows producing a given quantity wit less labour. This is the displacement effect of technical progress …

distribution dynamics approach in order to analyse the role of some variables in the convergence of productivity across European … regions over the period 1980-2002. We find that the initial productivity crucially accounts in the convergence process across … European regions. Differently, employment growth seems not to play a role, while the Structural and Cohesion Funds seem to play …

in matter of productivity, there are two versions of the model: considering the share of sectors in total employment and …Coming from standard economic growth theory and empirical evidences, we concentrated on the convergence process as a … estimate a typology of the convergence process in the European area. Taking into account the existing differences among sectors …

The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate … overestimated. In the second part of the paper, we evaluate β-convergence for total labour productivity and for each sector. We …

The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over …. Traditionally, productivity has been introduced as explaining factor of tertiarization processes in advanced economies, while it has … been simultaneously assessed that services display lower productivity levels and growth rates than other economic …

consequences of immigration with respect to the level of cultural diversity by estimating employment functions for individual … used is a linked employer -- employee data set generated by a fusion of the IAB Establishment Panel with the Employment … analyses it is shown that employment is lower when the degree of diversity is higher, regarding the revenue of an individual …

The sustained economic growth in 2000-2008 in Romania was accompanied by a declining employment rate from 63.6% to 59 …% in the same period, which improved the overall labor productivity. The unprecedented reduction of labor force … participation in some regions was strongly determined by the decline in agricultural employment, negative net migration, as well as …