We draw on two decades of historical data to analyze how regional labor markets in West Germany adjusted to one of the largest forced population movements in history, the mass inflow of eight million German expellees after World War II. The expellee inflow was distributed very asymmetrically...

Advocates of apprenticeship programs often argue as if it is simply a matter of historical accident which has hindered such investment by U.S. firms. This paper explores the structure of incentives undergirding the German system of apprenticeship training. First, we describe three...

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...

Zu unterschiedlichen Einschätzungen über Tiefe und Dauer der Beschäftigungskrise in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern kam es auf einer wissenschaftlichen Konferenz, die am 7. und 8. Mai 1991 in Dresden stattfand. Die Tagung zeigte, daß sich ost- und westdeutsche Wissenschaftler vor allem in...

1996 hat das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) vorläufigen Berechnungen zufolge um 3,2% zugenommen. Das war zu wenig, um die außerordentlich hohe Arbeitslosenquote (16,5%) nennenswert zu senken. Für 1997 ist mit einem Wachstum des realen BIP um 3,5 bis 4% zu rechnen, die wichtigsten Impulse...

We develop a theoretical model with labor market frictions, incomplete financial markets and with households which have two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical...