Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have increasingly focused on structural factors, there is only very limited evidence on their empirical importance so far. In this paper, these factors are analyzed based on a...

Employment termination in East Germany in the first nine months after unification is analyzed within a discrete hazard rate model with three absorbing states, namely short-time work, unemployment and non-participation. Estimation is based on a cohort of employed individuals in June 1990 and the...

The paper presents an empirical analysis of labour force dynamics in Poland in the period 1992 - 1993. Transitions between employment, unemployment and non-participation in the labour force at the individual level are derived from panel data of the Polish Labour Force Survey. These transitions...

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 Zeiten des Wandels von der Industrie- zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft, beschäftigt sich dieser Text damit, was unternehmensnahe Diensleistungen sind, was es beim Ausbau dieser für Schwierigkeiten gibt und wie durch unternehmensnahe Dienstleistungen Arbeitsplätze geschaffen werden.

Die Lohnkosten steigen in Westdeutschland immer weiter und liegen mit 44 DM pro Stunde an der Spitze im internationalen Vergleich. Selbst in den neuen Bundesländern werden mit 26,50 DM die Arbeitskosten in Kanada, Großbritannien, Griechenland, Portugal und allen angrenzenden osteuropäischen...