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 short-run employment effect of a revenue …

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 …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the … Enlargement had a negative effect on establishment-level employment growth, which is driven by increased worker separations and …

unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross … analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … effects a priori and allows for different job offer arrival rates for the employed and the unemployed. We find that …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …

are associated with a higher probability of employing atypical work, which suggests that these forms of employment are … reducing dismissal protection decreases the demand for fixed-term employment. …