Die vorliegende Studie ist im Rahmen der Tagung "Freie Berufe im Wandel der Märkte" ; anläßlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens unseres Forschungsinstituts Freie Berufe (FFB) der Universität Lüneburg entstanden. Einer der wichtigen und zentralen Märkte ist der Arbeitsmarkt. Dessen Wandel aus...

Die vorliegende Studie ist im Rahmen der Tagung "Freie Berufe im Wandel der Märkte" anläßlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens unseres Forschungsinstituts Freie Berufe (FFB) der Universität Lüneburg entstanden.Einer der wichtigen und zentralen Märkte ist der Arbeitsmarkt. Dessen Wandel aus...

Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the...

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities.We estimate a switching regime model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West German register data for 1976-1997, is generated by simultaneous processes of real, nominal or no wage rigidity, and...

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...