The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy …

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in … family structure with income pooling is less the norm, there are fewer opportunities for paid employment, and aggregate …

lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …

individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …