This paper discusses broad trends in labour force participation and part-time employment across different age groups since the Great Recession and uses provincial data to identify changes related to population aging, cyclical effects and other factors. The main population age groups examined are...

Regions in Germany are facing an intensifying structural change towards the knowledge economy which is affecting spatial patterns of growth. . Features of such a change know many facets: fierce competition for skilled, mobile and motivated labor force, unemployment of non-qualified labor, longer...

This article examines the ability of regional labour markets to rebound by growing the middle class or increasing wages. Using data on US metros, we identify regions that are transformative in terms of achieving a new equilibrium or reversing their path dependency. We then use discriminant...

Die Elektrifizierung des Antriebsstrangs bei Personenkraftwagen hat langfristig einen negativen Effekt auf das Wirtschaftswachstum und auf die Beschäftigung. Analysen bezüglich der regionalen Auswirkungen einer Elektrifizierung des Antriebsstrangs sind bislang jedoch nur wenig vorhanden und...