normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than …

presence of job protection will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with … heterogeneous labour and full information. -- Minimum wages ; unemployment ; hidden information ; labour market regulation …

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production … agreements significantly influence firms' employment policies. Enrolments and the employment of free-lance collaborators are …

: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment … increases particularly in non-tradable sectors in the short run. At the same time, unemployment drops while individual wages do …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …