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

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 4 Average squared loadings per factor for the sample from 2005 to 2010

	\(\overline{\lambda _{1}^{2}}\)	\(\overline{\lambda _{2}^{2}}\)	\(\overline{\lambda _{3}^{2}}\)	Communality
East	0.1024	0.2371	0.0168	0.3562
West	0.3457	0.0755	0.05	0.4711
Total	0.2949	0.1092	0.043	0.4471

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