analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

, 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 …

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 … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

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 …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … novel strategy allows us to separately identify their potentiallyopposing short- and medium-run effects on labour market … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production … agreements significantly influence firms' employment policies. Enrolments and the employment of free-lance collaborators are …