Labor market region
The labor market region is a type of categorization of German regions for statistical purposes that is defined and updated by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning .
The division of Germany into labor market regions serves to obtain more meaningful statistics with regard to economic performance and jobs and has an eye on the relationships between the city and the surrounding area. This includes in particular the commuter links between urban districts with a high density of jobs (e.g. the city of Schweinfurt ) and neighboring districts with a high excess of commuters (e.g. the district of Schweinfurt ), which are then combined to form a labor market region for statistical purposes in order to be better with other regions to be comparable. The rural districts and independent cities serve as the basic grid for the division, whereby the labor market regions are not divided across federal states with a few exceptions.
The labor market regions are very different in size and thus represent the diversity of commuter behavior in Germany. In metropolitan areas such as Frankfurt or Munich, they include several districts and urban districts, while in rural regions one district often corresponds to a labor market region (in fact, here the commuting relationships are often even more fragmented and focused on several separate small towns in the district). The division also has practical relevance as a spatial basis for the demarcation of the support areas for the joint task of improving the regional economic structure .