Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …

points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the … gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …Following monetary union with the west in June 1990, the employment rate for east German 18-54 year olds fell from 89 …% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any …

to lower unemployment. Whether work-sharing works - whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced - is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3-0.7%, but that total hours worked fell 2-3%, implying possible output losses. As a group … workers were better off, however, as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours decline, at …

West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of … reduction in 'firing costs' on movements in employment is assessed using manufacturing data by detailed industry for the period … industries with high and low sales variability, suggest they are not the result of the Employment Promotion Act …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …