Regional Educational Disparities and Employment Development Authors Mareike Tarazona Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF), Schlossstraße 29, 60486, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13147-010-0057-z Keywords: Education, Employment, Human capital, Convergence Abstract Education plays a major role for an economy’s growth in economic analysis and theory. However, international studies about the relation between education and economic growth lack valid and comparable data. In studies about regional development, education has received only limited attention. This study analyses the relation between education and employment growth in Germany, and compares various education variables. A regression across 97 German planning regions reveals that the development of several education variables, the capital stock and the working age population demonstrate highly significant coefficients for explaining the development of employment. 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