Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged spell duration and improved post-unemployment job...

Propensity score matching provides an estimate of the effect of a treatment variable on an outcome variable that is largely free of bias arising from an association between treatment status and observable variables. However, matching methods are not robust against hidden bias arising from...

Economic job search theory offers two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged spell duration and improved...

In the context of the ongoing reforms on European labour markets the keyword flexicurity is presently gaining prominence. We therefore want to explore the importance of the flexicurity-concept on the example of the German Hartzreforms. Starting from the frequently used definition as a trade-off...

Die vorliegende Studie entwickelt einen analytischen Bezugsrahmen für eine idealtypische Evaluierung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Zur Illustration dient das Arbeitsmarktpolitische Rahmenprogramm der Berliner Landesregierung. Dabei standen die vom Europäischen Sozialfonds kofinanzierten...

Der Beitrag zeigt theoretisch wie empirisch, dass die derzeitige Ausgestaltung des Geschlechtervertrags mögliche Komplementaritäten von Gleichheit und Effizienz nicht ausnutzt. So werden beispielsweise die hohen Bildungsinvestitionen von Mädchen und Frauen von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft bei...

This is a paper based on the annual lecture in honour of Hugo Sinzheimer at November 10, 2005, Hugo-Sinzheimer-Institute at the University of Amsterdam. In 1928, Sinzheimer wrote an article entitled Die Demokratisierung des Arbeitsverhältnisses, (The Democratisation of the Employment...

Es gibt kein Recht auf Faulheit in unserer Gesellschaft. Mit diesen Worten setzte Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder im April dieses Jahres eine heiße Debatte über faule Arbeitslose in Gang, die bereits einige historische Vorläufer hatte. Der Beitrag untersucht zuerst, ob die verschiedenen...

Women and men increasingly face work-related critical events during their lifecourse and experience risks that are not fully covered by unemployment insurance or other work related insurances. Social risk management of transitional labour markets (TLMs) aims at supporting people in navigating...

This essay intends to explore three innovative ways to foster job creation in services: First, the switch from product markets to utility markets would induce more and new types of user services. Such a switch would not only be more employment friendly but also foster a sustainable economic...