analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

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 …

We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups …, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment …

could, over the medium term, result in relatively high levels of unemployment. Unless mobility is stimulated, European …