Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...

Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...

Der Bericht beschäftigt sich mit der Möglichkeit zur Entkoppelung von Relativlohnbildung und Lohnniveau. Die gegenwärtige (1994) Arbeitslosigkeit ist ein Problem der Stagflation. Durch die Stagflation wird sich bei jeder Arbeitslosigkeit auf die Dauer Lohnsteigerung ergeben. Dies wird die...

Zu unterschiedlichen Einschätzungen über Tiefe und Dauer der Beschäftigungskrise in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern kam es auf einer wissenschaftlichen Konferenz, die am 7. und 8. Mai 1991 in Dresden stattfand. Die Tagung zeigte, daß sich ost- und westdeutsche Wissenschaftler vor allem in...

In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search...

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on a two-state mixed proportional hazard model...

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firm- and age-specific...

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and macroeconomic factors – including aggregate and local unemployment rates, generosity of the unemployment compensation system and characteristics of the wage structure – as well...