This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy and the labour market. The form of transformation has long-term effects on the form of control over the economy; it is managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold...

This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupations...

Der vorliegende Band ist ein erster umfassender Bericht über die Bildungsgesamtrechnung des IAB, ihre grundlegenden Fragestellungen, Verfahren, Datenquellen und Ergebnisse. Die Bildungsgesamtrechnung (BGR) wurde konzipiert, um einen Gesamtüberblick über die quantitativen Zusammenhänge...