Michael Franck, Mannheim
Regional spread of mismatch unemployment on the German
labour market and conclusions on as to policies of the Federal Employment
Pages 42 - 55
A lot of labour market researchers argue that the main problem
behind the high unemployment rate in Germany is the mismatch between labour
demand and supply. This article, however, shows that such a thesis ignores
the spatial dimension and can only be verified for some of the German
regions. Labour demand deficiency is at least of equal importance in many
other regions. The article identifies which problem is dominant in which
region and explains what kind of labour market policies should be therefore
preferred respectively.
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