production. With respect to labour market coordination, we discuss several wage-forming mechanisms and involuntary unemployment. …This chapter reviews options of labour market modelling in a CGE framework. On the labour supply side, two principal … household data. On the labour demand side, we focus on the substitution possibilities between different types of labour in …

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …

is used. On the other hand, by using a general equilibrium framework, labour market responses, such as wage and labour …

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the … one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand … numerical model for Germany. The model combines a microsimulation module, which captures the labour-supply decisions of …