We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with severalother surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EUaccession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, aswell as selection issues...

This paper focuses on the links between informal care provision and labour market activity atthe sub-national level. Within-country analysis of this issue has been very limited to datedespite the wide regional variations in informal care provision that often exist. This issue isimportant in the...

European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to lookinto joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employmentwithout a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are notaccounted for). Consistently...

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise becauseworkers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know whichcandidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, whilethe second coordination...

Using U.S. manufacturing data, Griliches (1969) found evidence suggesting that capitalequipment was more substitutable for unskilled than skilled labor. Griliches formulated thisfinding as the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The purpose of this study is todetermine whether the...

Is it any longer necessary to point out that the service sector accounts for the highest share of economic activity in today’s developed economies, irrespective of the indicators used to demonstrate its importance? This dominant position is reflected not only in its quantitative importance but...

Viele reden heute vom „Ende der Arbeitsgesellschaft“, von der heranbrechenden,mal mehr mal weniger rosig ausgemalten Zukunft „jenseitsder Erwerbsarbeit“. Die Diskussion ist weithin in zwei Lager gespalten:Das Credo der einen sind die gewachsenen Werte und Institutionen derIndustriekultur;...

Wer für die aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik eintritt, optiert für die Erwerbsarbeit als wesentlicher Grundlage gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe. Aktive Arbeitsförderung und Akivierung von Arbeitslosen für den Arbeitsmarkt würden keinen Sinn machen, wenn man davon ausginge, daß die Erwerbsarbeit...