The Labor Market and Employment (Handbook article). The labor market differs from typical markets in important ways. We … find job competition and collective mechanisms that set wages and working conditions. Changes in employment bring about … changes in wages and prices and entail political and monetary responses. The goals of price stability and full employment …

flexibility of the labor market increases both the employment rate and the rate of participation in the labor force. A … conservative estimate suggests that if France were to make its labor markets as flexible as those in the US, its employment rate … would increase 1.6 percentage points, or 14% of the employment gap between the two countries. The estimated effects are …

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to … their UAs and can make withdrawals from these accounts during periods of unemployment. The aim of this policy proposal is to …

Zurückhaltung in den Einstellungen zurückzuführen. Hochgerechnet hätten ohne den Mindestlohn 60.000 zusätzliche Jobs entstehen …

provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … way. The present paper deals with the question if and how the employment careers of West German women with at least one … 1956-65) is carried out. It is of interest whether and how the employment patterns have changed. Another question is what …

This paper uses the econometrically estimated contributions of price stability, employment and growth to subjective …

The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women …. Thus, it might have jeopardised the slow and hard-won reduction of gender inequalities in the division of labour achieved …

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to … their UAs and can make withdrawals from these accounts during periods of unemployment. The aim of this policy proposal is to …

people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced …