Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

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 …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … labor market there will exist hours restrictions for certain jobs and occupations. Therefore, I simulate Germans' working …

, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run …This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 … long-term unemployment. Training programmes organised by labour offices should not be regarded as a panacea for the … problems of the long-term unemployed. The results suggest that active labour market policies should perhaps be seen more as a …

and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …