objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

The Labor Market and Employment (Handbook article). The labor market differs from typical markets in important ways. We … find job competition and collective mechanisms that set wages and working conditions. Changes in employment bring about … changes in wages and prices and entail political and monetary responses. The goals of price stability and full employment …

This working paper presents a comparison of the employment structure and development among different types of districts … that in Western Germany the rural districts of minor density could not keep up with the employment growth in the remaining … contributions to research in the field of regional employment disparities clarifies that the differences are driven by a large …

analysis based on the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) shows that more than 900,000 persons … are employed in the environmental sector in Germany. Following the results of an econometrical analysis of employment … perspectives and innovation behaviour integrated environmental technologies will become more relevant whereas employment in …

no significant relationship with employment, there is also statistically significant negative association with retail … increase first, or more directly, by reducing payroll rather than employment. While the economic significance of these results …