Geringfügige Beschäftigungsverhältnisse, sogenannte Minijobs, sind inzwischen ein nicht unerheblicher Teil abhängiger Beschäftigung in Deutschland. Das RWI hat im Jahr 2012 sowohl eine Befragung von geringfügig beschäftigten Arbeitnehmern als auch Arbeitgebern mit Minijobs in...

Scarce empirical evidence exists for Germany regarding the cyclical aspects of worker reallocation. Furthermore, it is assumed that the cyclical influence on transition rates is the same for all demographic groups. However, one can expect that each subgroup is differentially influenced by the...

The FDZ Ruhr provides a dataset on real estate advertisements in Germany for the years 2007 to 2017. The data is based on the internet platform ImmobilienScout24 and covers apartments and houses for sale and for rent. The data is available for scientific research only. The provided dataset...

[Introduction] An important issue in the current German public and political discourse is the development of housing prices. Sharply increasing rents, shortage of living space in urban areas and rural exodus are some of the discussed problems. Despite its topicality, few data are available on...

[Introduction] An important issue in the current German public and political discourse is the development of housing prices. Sharply increasing rents, shortage of living space in urban areas and rural exodus are some of the discussed problems. Despite its topicality, few data are available on...

There exists empirical evidence for Germany that income inequality has increased. Further, development of housing prices is quite heterogeneous between regions. In this paper we analyze regional inequality regarding purchasing power per capita. By contrast to the existing literature we apply...

The airport Berlin-Brandenburg that has been built for several years now will take over all flights from the existing airports in Berlin. Four weeks before the expected opening of the airport its was delayed by several months. This delay was exogeneous for (potential) residents in the...

Existing nationwide population projections focus on highly aggregated spatial units. The most regionalized nationwide study is provided by the German Federal Institute for Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Research (BBSR) and predicts population on county level up to 2035 (BBSR 2015)....

[ 1. Arbeitsmarktregionen als funktionale Raumeinheit ] Arbeitsmarktregionen sind eine regionale Einheit, die in sich wirtschaftlich stark verflochtene aber nach außen hin weitgehend unabhängige Räume darstellen. Grundsätzlich sollen in den funktional gefassten Regionen Arbeits- und Wohnorte...