Die Dresdner Niederlassung des ifo Instituts hat in einem Gutachten für das Sächsische Staatsministe - rium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit die Frage untersucht, durch welche Maßnahmen ein Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit durch öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung erzielt werden kann, ohne der...

Beschäftigungsfördernde Maßnahmen kommen in Betracht, wenn bei Arbeitslosigkeit die Eingliederung in reguläre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse aufgrund der regionalen Arbeitsmarktlage oder individueller Eigenschaften des Arbeitslosen nicht möglich ist. Für viele Maßnahmen öffentlich...

With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...

Labour markets in China have experienced remarkable changes in the past decade. In this paper we use above-scale industrial firm-level data of 2001-2008 to study how labour market developments have affected labour costs of firms across regions, and different levels of technology and ownership in...

The article deals with the problem of union representation in the low-pay-sector. Regarding especially (but not only) the situation in Germany, it claims a cultural gap between traditional unions and employees in the expanding precarious job sector. This is due to the difficult circumstances for...

The rapid rise of Chinese exports over the past two decades has raised concerns for manufacturing employment in high-income countries. Spill-overs beyond manufacturing are an important issue given the large size of the non-traded sector in modern economies and household imperfect spatial...

"In this contribution employment effects of wage subsidies and a minimum wage are analyzed for Germany. Existing studies for the construction sector and simulations of a statutory minimum wage unanimously point to employment losses of a general minimum wage for Germany. The magnitude of the...

"In this contribution employment effects of wage subsidies and a minimum wage are analyzed for Germany. Existing studies for the construction sector and simulations of a statutory minimum wage unanimously point to employment losses of a general minimum wage for Germany. The magnitude of the...

This paper provides the first comparative examination of the consequences of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and traditional corporate acquisitions on employment and wages using a uniquely constructed panel data set covering the period 1996-2006. Employing propensity score matching combined with...