"There is no simple answer to the question of the potential impact of migration on the EU economy. EU migration policy is expected to meet the requirements of economic and social policy, in particular of the Lisbon Agenda, as well as national cultural, political, strategic and security...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"The management approach of management by objectives (MBO) is currently experiencing a renaissance in European labour market policy. This paper first recapitulates key conceptional principles of the management by objectives model and stresses the relevance of the moral hazard problem. Then there...

"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EU Eastern Enlargement. The EU has agreed with the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe transitional periods for the free movement of...

"The management approach of management by objectives (MBO) is currently experiencing a renaissance in European labour market policy. This paper first recapitulates key conceptional principles of the management by objectives model and stresses the relevance of the moral hazard problem. Then there...

"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EU Eastern Enlargement. The EU has agreed with the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe transitional periods for the free movement of...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"Wenngleich es für die These einer innerbetrieblichen Arbeitsmarktsegmentation in Form von Stamm- und Randbelegschaften zahlreiche Hinweise gibt, mangelt es noch immer an stringenten empirischen Tests dieser These. Neben dem Problem eindeutiger Kriterien zur Abgrenzung von Stamm- und...

"What do external controls in the German labour market focus on? In the tradition of empirical administration research, we use the example of the labour market control unit in Berlin that focuses on the construction sector (Außendienstprüfgruppe Bau) to investigate what aims are pursued by...