Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...

Arbeitslosengeld-II-Bezieher, die ohne wichtigen Grund nicht mit den Jobcentern kooperieren oder sich nicht hinreichend darum bemühen, eine Erwerbsarbeit oder Ausbildung aufzunehmen, müssen mit Sanktionen als Kürzungen ihrer Arbeitslosengeld- II-Leistungen für eine Dauer von drei Monaten...

In this paper a new typology is proposed for the empirical analysis of job supply proc-esses. On the basis of this a schema is developed for a 'job supply account' in which stock and flow values, differentiated according to the type of process are recorded fully and linked systematically....

This paper analysing the regional mobility of labour uses the IAB regional sample (west) to examine changes of job involving a move from north to south. From an action-theory point of view, attention is paid not only to the people's individual factors such as level of education/training, income...

This paper is to provide a first insight into the sanction instrument of benefit suspension, existing in two forms, for people receiving benefits from the Federal Employment Service. The research is based on extensive individual datasets from the Federal Employment Service, the IAB employment...

The study reports comprehensively about further vocational training activities in the context of regular employment relationships in western and eastern Germany. In a comparative analysis of the participants in and the structure of further vocational training special emphasis is placed on a...

In a project group of the Federal Employment Service, two classification systems were developed for categorizing employment office areas, one with five and the other with twelve types. The former is intended for the development of strategies of labour market policy; the latter serves to...

This study evaluates the effects of job-creation measures (ABM) in Germany on the participants' individual integration into regular employment. An extensive and informative data set from the data stock of the Federal Employment Services (Bundesagentur für Arbeit - BA) is used for the study....

This paper examines the relationship between the net union density, as a measure of union power, and the wage structure within and between segments of the German labour market in the period 1985-1997 on the basis of the IAB employment sample. Individual probabilities of trade union membership...