"From November 1990 Infratest Sozialforschung (Infratest social research) carried out on commission for the Federal Employment Services (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) eight labour market surveys in the 'new' Bundesländer (i.e. the federal states of the former GDR) and East Berlin. The first of...

"Following the economic collapse in eastern Germany, in addition to the high level of unemployment, a hidden labour force of a considerable size has also developed in the new Länder. The IAB estimates the hidden labour force in the new Länder for 1997 to be more than 800,000 people. This...

"Die Studie untersucht Migrationen von Ost- nach Westdeutschland. Mit einem sequentiellen Entscheidungsmodell wird zum einen geprüft, welche Personen die Absicht äußern, von Ost- nach Westdeutschland umziehen zu wollen. Simultan und unter Kontrolle unbeobachteter Heterogenität wird sodann...

"Der Beitrag stellt erste Modellrechnungen zur Entwicklung des Erwerbspersonenpotentials in den neuen Bundesländern für den Zeitraum von 1990 bis 2010 dar. Dies geschieht auf dem Hintergrund einer höchst unsicheren Datenbasis, so daß die Berechnung im wesentlichen auf plausiblen Setzungen...

"Die längerfristigen Zukunftsperspektiven des gesamtdeutschen Erwerbspersonenpotentials ergeben sich als Zusammenfassung aus den einschlägigen neuen Modellrechnungen für das bisherigen Bundesgebiet und den ersten Überlegungen zur zukünftigen Entwicklung des ostdeutschen...

"From November 1990 Infratest Sozialforschung (Infratest social research) carried out on commission for the Federal Employment Services (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) eight labour market surveys in the 'new' Bundesländer (i.e. the federal states of the former GDR) and East Berlin. The first of...

"The number of self-employed people in Germany increased slightly from the early 1980s and has increased to a greater extent since the beginning of the 1990s. Starting from the 1970s a considerable change has been observed in the fields of activity of the self-employed, which has always been an...

"The number of western German women who wish to work has increased continuously since the mid-sixties irrespective of the economic development. In eastern Germany it remained at a high level in spite of continuously high unemployment. With the crisis on the labour market in the early nineties,...

"The number of western German women who wish to work has increased continuously since the mid-sixties irrespective of the economic development. In eastern Germany it remained at a high level in spite of continuously high unemployment. With the crisis on the labour market in the early nineties,...

"The number of self-employed people in Germany increased slightly from the early 1980s and has increased to a greater extent since the beginning of the 1990s. Starting from the 1970s a considerable change has been observed in the fields of activity of the self-employed, which has always been an...