We use the Socio-Economic Panel to study how the job-shift patterns of West German workers changed between 1984 and 2008, analyzing trends separately by gender, education, labor force experience, firm size, and sector. We document a considerable reduction in the rate of within-firm job changes,...

Eine Untersuchung zur Arbeitsplatzmobilität in Westdeutschland von 1984 bis 2008 zeigt: Die Erwerbsverläufe sind für die meisten Beschäftigten nicht instabiler geworden. Für geringqualifizierte Beschäftigte hat sich das Risiko eines Arbeitgeberwechsels oder des Arbeitsplatzverlusts...

Männer ohne Berufsausbildung oder Hochschulabschluss haben in Deutschland eher niedrige alltagsmathematische Kompetenzen. Dennoch gibt es zwischen ihnen deutliche Kompetenzunterschiede. Auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt profitieren formal gering qualifizierte Männer kaum von höheren Kompetenzen...

Only few previous studies have explored cross-national variation in the relationship between educational certificates and competences. In this paper, we investigate the certificate-competence relationship, operationalized as skills gaps by level of educational attainment. More importantly, we...

The German Hartz reforms, introduced by the Red-Green coalition government in the years 2003 to 2005, form part of a broader pattern of European activation policies which have become known as new labour policies. The idea of these reforms was to reduce welfare dependency and to boost activity...

"While previous research on temporary employment has shown that certain labour market groups are more likely than others to enter this kind of employment, there has been scant research on the question concerning to what extent these allocation patterns have changed over time. Against the...