evolution of regional employment disparities. Therefore, this paper investigates the hypothesis of convergence for the total … employment rate and skill-specific employment rates of West German regional planning units for the time period 1989 to 2008. This … results indicate for stochastic convergence in the case of total and high-skilled employment rates whereas the hypothesis of …

The sustained economic growth in 2000-2008 in Romania was accompanied by a declining employment rate from 63.6% to 59 … participation in some regions was strongly determined by the decline in agricultural employment, negative net migration, as well as … demographic and educational composition of employment. The paper aims at measuring the cross-regional variation of age structure …

formation exerts its influence on employment growth is not yet evident. Are start-ups in those areas equally productive in … influencing employment change as they are in growing regions? Although there is a large and growing body of research on new firm … formation and employment, there is still a knowledge gap concerning the impact of the context on the effect of new firm …

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 …

and private employed talents to understand the spatial dynamics of talents and urban and regional employment growth … relationship between growth of talents and total employment growth among Danish municipalities, and thirdly, we examine if there is … and job growth are related. The public sector in Denmark accounts for 30.6 % of total national employment and 43.1 % of …

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution … policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or … relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity …