variation in regional unemployment and in the development of employment is puzzling. Our explanation of this regional variation … of unemployment builds on the regional industry composition and technological progress. It is shown formally that under … leads to an expansion of employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if …

cycle. The more mature an industry is the less elastic is demand. Technical progress has two opposing effects on employment … are regions in which even during the crisis virtual full employment prevails (e.g. Munich Area) and others which face a … on structural change and technical progress. The price elasticity of demand changes across the industry/product life …

We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ … a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the … occupational employment structure within sectors explains much of the sectoral differences. …

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 …

businesses constantly enter, while others gradually disappear. This paper covers analyses of regional employment change …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …