A common method of evaluating the scope for demand expansion is to try to estimate a threshold rate of unemployment above which policies of demand stimulus are non-inflationary. However, this non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) seems to have been anything but stable over the...

A common method of evaluating the scope for demand expansion is to try to estimate a threshold rate of unemployment above which policies of demand stimulus are non-inflationary. However, this non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) seems to have been anything but stable over the...

A common method of evaluating the scope for demand expansion is to try to estimate a threshold rate of unemployment above which policies of demand stimulus are non-inflationary. However, this non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) seems to have been anything but stable over the...

Die aktuelle Diskussion über die Reformen am Arbeitsmarkt kreist nach wie vor um das Arbeitslosengeld II (ALG II). Strittig ist insbesondere die Ausgestaltung des ALG II zur Bekämpfung der Beschäftigungsprobleme gering qualifizierter Arbeitsloser, die neben den Langzeitarbeitslosen eine der...

Der Beitrag enthält eine Bestandsaufnahme und Analyse der ostdeutschen Arbeitsmarktentwicklung sowie eine quantitative Abschätzung einiger Rückwirkungen der ostdeutschen Importnachfrage auf die westdeutsche Volkswirtschaft. Ausgehend von einer Schätzung der tatsächlichen Unterauslastung des...

This paper is concerned with the experience of the Federal Republic of Germany with migratory movements. It presents, firstly, quantitative magnitudes and describes some institutional regulations concerning the immigration and remigration of foreign workers, including some remarks on more recent...

This paper provides an overview of the hysteresis phenomenon in economics. After a brief formal statement the origins of this principle are outlined. Hysteresis in economic relationships is then discussed with special reference to industrial economics in an international setting and to labour...