principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …

, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … who came through the employment channel are more likely to be in full-time paid work. In Denmark, however, the status at …

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

governments in Germany, France, Italy and Spain have implemented over the last two decades for workers "at the margins". The … wage regulation - and reveals varied trajectories. A common direction is followed by Germany and Spain, which have adopted …