This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

Der Autor untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen und Arbeitslosigkeit für 20 Industrieländer. Es wird geprüft, ob es einen nicht-linearen Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen und Arbeitslosigkeit gibt. Dabei werden sowohl länderspezifische Einzelgleichungen...