"Institutionalised in its own working group, the IAB carries out regional research in order to obtain findings about the development of regional disparities and about the way regional labour markets work. This research also helps in the analysis and discussion of regional labour market policy...

"In the paper, for the first time in western Germany, estimates of the wage curve are presented using individual panel data. Therefore, it is possible to control for the influence of individual unobserved heterogeneity on the estimation of the wage curve. The relationship between regional wages...

"This article examines the extent to which the structure of foreign workers in three different types of local labour market adapted to the respective structure of indigenous workers between 1980 and 1990. The Ruhr district is examined as an example of a traditional industrial region, Frankfurt...

"Obwohl die Zahl der Betriebsstillegungen in der Bundesrepublik in den letzten Jahren erheblich zugenommen hat, sind ihre Auswirkungen auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte bislang kaum untersucht worden. Am Beispiel der Großwerft AG Weser in Bremen, durch deren Schließung Ende 1983 ca. 2.000 Arbeiter und...

"The article places the wage curve in the context of a more extensive model of regional adjustment procedures. According to the approach it is necessary to differentiate between variables which show convergence characteristics and variables which strive for permanently changed balances following...

"The flexibility of European labour markets is widely discussed by researchers and politicians. To explore the reactions of wages to regional unemployment for the first time data from a national representative survey of establishments (the IAB Establishment Panel) has been used. The results...

"This paper reconsiders the West German wage curve using the employment statistics of the Federal Employment Services of Germany (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. This updates the earlier study by Baltagi and Blien (1998) by 15 years for a more disaggregated 326 regions of...

"Mit der Einführung der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende hat der Bund die Finanzierung der Leistungen zur Eingliederung in Arbeit für die Leistungsempfänger nach dem SGB II übernommen. Die Verteilung der Haushaltsmittel auf die 439 Leistungsträger in Arbeitsgemeinschaften und optierenden...

"In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

"This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam, based on surveys conducted in 1999 and 2005. By including the time dimension and surveying samples with over 6000 individuals respectively it is possible to identify precisely the...