regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i … unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

(1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection … into fulltime employment. However, we show that selection-corrected wages of male and female workers at the lower half of … of the male full-time employment force over time, which in spite of the rather constant male full-time employment rate …

-relevant characteristics, in particular higher employment rates. …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …