To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...

The Dutch story / Robert Solow -- The debate in the Netherlands on low pay / Wiemer Salverda, Maarten van Klaveren, and Marc van der Meer -- Low-wage work and the economy / Wiemer Salverda -- Labor market institutions, low-wage work, and job quality / Wiemer Salverda -- The position, design, and...