Der Gesetzesentwurf der Fraktion Bundnis 90/Die Grunen im Thüringer Landtag sieht vor, einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn im öffentlichen Dienst in Thüringen einzuführen. Dieser Mindestlohn soll Gültigkeit entfalten sowohl fur Beschäftigte des Landes und der thüringischen Kommunen als auch...

This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be regarded as casting a 'Shadow of Death' on their final leaving the market. This aspect is of high relevance for politicians and other decision-makers, because by knowing more about...

In East Germany a profound demographic change has been taking place that manifests itself in the shrinkage and the aging of the population. One major cause is the drop in the East German fertility rates by about half directly after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In no other countries of...

Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert neue und umfangreiche empirische Befunde zur Rückwanderung von Beschäftigten nach Ostdeutschland. Die intensivsten Wanderungsverflechtungen bestanden dabei mit den wirtschaftsstarken Bundesländern Bayern und Baden-Württemberg. Eine kleinräumige...

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of plants in Germany and, if so, in which direction....

We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate...