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Being a long distance out-commuter or home employee in a rather peripheral region evidence of a German federal state
Abstract Many firms in Germany are short of qualified workers, whereby East German regions are particularly affected because of the out-migration to West Germany after the reunification. This gives rise to an important debate for regional policy as the shortage of workers is a major challenge for each region and firm. In this context, out-commuters—workers who commute to work in another region—become an important group of employees to potentially satisfy local labour needs. In this study, we take a closer look at out-commuters in a particular eastern German region—the Federal State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV)—and address the question whether out-commuters are a selective group of individuals working in e.g. occupations or industries that are rarely needed for labour market requirements in MV. Further, we focus on the wage differential between out-commuters and workers who are living and working in MV (home employees). The determination of the factors that explain this wage gap can provide new insights and a deeper understanding of the labour market in MV. This can provide a basis to work out potential strategies to attract the group of out-commuters for a workplace in MV to reduce the complained labour shortage. The derived evidence suggests that only few out-commuters can be recalled, as the labour demand in MV and the respective wage level are too low and the economic structure is too weak to sufficiently gain back out-commuters. Especially females suffer from the job-market weakness in MV.
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This journal publishes original theoretical and empirical research in all fields of regional science. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, its scientific scope includes in particular economics, geography, sociology, spatial and urban planning, transportation, environmental issues, resource management, population science and communication. The Review of Regional Research is a publication of the German-speaking section of the Regional Science Association International, i.e. the Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung. Since its inception in 1980 the journal’s primary aim has been to publish high-quality papers that make new and substantial contributions to theoretical as well as empirical issues in regional science. Submitted manuscripts are subject to a mutually anonymous peer-review process.
Until 2014 the Review of Regional Research was published under the title Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft.Die Zeitschrift ist eine halbjährlich erscheinende Veröffentlichung der Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung, der deutschsprachigen Sektion der Regional Science Association International. Zentrales Anliegen der Zeitschrift ist es, neue und substantielle Beiträge zu theoretischen und empirischen Themenstellungen mit räumlichem Bezug zu publizieren. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden einem beidseitig anonymen Gutachterverfahren unterzogen. Die Zeitschrift ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und umfasst insbesondere die Fachrichtungen Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Geographie, Soziologie, Politologie, Raumordnung, Stadtplanung, Bevölkerungs-, Umwelt- und Verkehrswissenschaften. Als Forum der Regionalforschung in diesem umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Spektrum ist die Zeitschrift einzigartig im deutschsprachigen Raum. Official citation from 2014: Rev Reg Res