Im gesamtwirtschaftlichen Arbeitsvolumen werden unbezahlte Überstunden – im Unterschied zu bezahlten Überstunden und der Saldenveränderung auf Arbeitszeitkonten – bislang nicht berücksichtigt. Der in Arbeitsstunden gemessene Arbeitsinput wird damit zu gering ausgewiesen. Jedoch tragen...

Many economic decisions implicitly or explicitly rely on a projection of the medium- or long-term economic development of a country or region. In this paper, we provide a federal long-run projection model for Germany and the German states. The model fea-tures a top-down approach and, as major...

"Many empirical studies for Germany consider either the training activities of the unemployed or those of employees. However, a comprehensive comparison of both groups had not been conducted until now. The paper closes this gap. Using data from the latest time-use survey (Zeitbudgeterhebung) of...

This paper evaluates the effects of further training on the unemployment duration of different groups of persons representing individual characteristics and some aspects of the economic environment. The Micro Census Saxony enables us to include the employment history as a proxy for unobserved...