Die Humankapitaltheorie sagt voraus, dass mit einem Berufswechsel Hu-mankapitalinvestitionen in berufsspezifische Fähigkeiten erforderlich sind. Insofern sollten sich regionale Unterschiede im Berufsangebot auf das erwartete Einkommen in der Zielregion auswirken. Erfassen bestehende...

In this paper, a set of neural network (NN) models is developed to compute short-term forecasts of regional employment patterns in Germany. NNs are modern statistical tools based on learning algorithms that are able to process large amounts of data. NNs are enjoying increasing interest in...

Forecasting regional variables provides very important information for political, institutional and economic agents. However, in the present context characterized by important decline of economies, heterogeneous data and regional interdependencies, it is even more difficult to carry out accurate...