More than just one labor market cycle in Germany? An analysis of regional unemployment data

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 3 Average squared loadings per factor for the sample from 1997 to 2004

	\(\overline{\lambda _{1}^{2}}\)	\(\overline{\lambda _{2}^{2}}\)	\(\overline{\lambda _{3}^{2}}\)	\(\overline{\lambda _{4}^{2}}\)	Communality
East	0.0296	0.3231	0.025	0.0139	0.3916
West	0.2832	0.0351	0.0486	0.0438	0.4108
Total	0.2185	0.1086	0.0426	0.0362	0.4059

Note: The factors and loadings have been rotated to maximize the expression in (A4), creating the highest possible average squared loading for the West German counties for the first factor and the highest possible average squared loading for the East German counties for the second factor. Factors are orthogonal