Discrete choice models are used to investigate the individual’s choice among a discrete number of alternatives. The characteristics of each alternative, by means of multinomial and nested multinomial models, have been taken into account. Specifically, this study analyses the impact of...

German-Pakistani relations cannot be analyzed in isolation of the larger domestic and international trajectories, economic and political, on both sides of the partnership. After a recent democratic power transfer in 2013, Pakistan continues to face complex challenges. The instable security...

Based on a longitudinal data base the hazard rate of over 12,000 newly established plants in U.S. manufacturing industry in 1976 are estimated and then compared between low and high-tech industries. It is found that the hazard rate differs across industries, and it also varies between low- and...

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...

This report deals with Action 5 of the White Paper Follow-Up process and analyses feasible steps or improvements already undertaken by Member States and the Community at large to make better use of public funds for combating unemployment. Public funds devoted to labour market policies play a...

The network addressed the basic transformation of our European social and economic systems caused by globalisation, modernisation, individualisation or the shift towards the knowledge-based society. The change in the nature of social risks was one of the focal points of the project. The decline...

The report takes issue with the large debate of social security systems and particularly the large expenditure devoted to unemployment insurance in most OECD countries. From the perspective of transitional labour markets we analyse the corresponding welfare regime focusing on employment and...

This essay argues that experience from more than three decades of labour market forecasting shows that forecasting helps greasing the wheels of labour markets. Applied correctly not in the sense of old fashioned manpower planning models - sufficiently disaggregated employment outlooks support...

Mit einem dynamischen Ansatz untersuchen wir Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit in der Europäischen Union. Ausgehend von der Theorie der Übergangsarbeitsmärkte werden die vielfältigen Brücken in Beschäftigung, aber auch der Verlust von Beschäftigung untersucht. Zunächst wird die...

Neben den Niederlanden ist Dänemark das einzige Land in der Europäischen Union, dem es gelang, die Arbeitslosigkeit seit 1994 - also innerhalb einer Regierungsperiode - zu halbieren. Bemerkenswert ist vor allem, daß die saisonbereinigte Arbeitslosigkeit der unter 25jährigen von 13,2 Prozent...