The secular rise of European unemployment since the 1960s is hard to explain without reference to structural change. This is especially true in Germany, where industrial employment has declined by more than 30% and service sector employment has more than doubled over the past three decades....

Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary influence of governments on labor markets. Thispaper examines the role of payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations ina nonmonetary economy with labor market frictions and unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only...

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...

Der Vorstand der Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen hat im Juli 2010 den Forschungsschwerpunkt Wissen und Kompetenz des Instituts Arbeit und Technik Gel-senkirchen mit der Bearbeitung des Projektes „Vorstudie für eine systematische Aufnahme und Bewertung von...

Insgesamt 126 Initiativen, Programme und Bildungsgänge konnten in NRW identifiziert werden.Die vom Bund initiierten Programme in NRW legen den Schwerpunkt auf die strukturelle Ebene mit dem Ziel, das Übergangssystem zu verbessern und effizienter zu gestalten.In den NRW-spezifischen...

Deutschland hat Personalprobleme. Sie drohenim Schatten der weltweiten WirtschaftsundFinanzkrise aus dem Blickfeld zu geraten.Doch von der Krise eine Entlastung auf demArbeitsmarkt für Fachkräfte zu erwarten, wie esmanche Vorhersagen von Ökonomen nahe legten,erweist sich als kurzsichtige...

We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and the wage level havean individual...

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor...

We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...