"Based on the two IAB establishment surveys - the IAB Establishment Panel and the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - this report sheds light on the German labour market from the firms' perspective and gives information about the labour demand and resulting skills shortages for the years 2006 to 2012. With...

"The employment situation of older workers in Germany used to be poor. However, in recent years it has improved considerably. Germany has shifted its policies to strengthen the labor market performance of older workers. Policy has focused on less early exits of older workers and far-reaching...

"Start-ups of new businesses can influence employment in different ways. The indirect effects, particularly improvements of competitiveness that may result from the entry of new competitors, are often more important than the employment in the new businesses. Recent empirical studies have shown...

"This article uses the total population of firms, as contained in the Employee History ('Beschäftigten-Historik') of the IAB, to analyse the dynamics of employment in establishments of different size classes. This analysis is therefore the first of its kind to include all economic sectors for...

"The labor markets of most industrialized countries are polarized. This means that employment has grown in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. However, there exists no measure that allows a...

"This study examines empirically the relationship between employment and wage structures between and within qualification and age groups. First, the substitution elasticities between qualification and age groups are estimated and the changes in wages are determined that would have been necessary...

"The prospects for Germany's economic development are good at present. Nonetheless there are also uncertainties and downsides. For this reason our labour market forecast for 2000 is based on a range of assumptions for the actual economic growth. The overview includes the basic data of these...

" Von 1960 bis 1979 ist die Jahresarbeitszeit der Arbeitnehmer um ein Sechstel zurückgegangen, das ist pro Jahr fast 1%. Bedeutsamer als alle anderen Arbeitszeitkomponenten war für diese Entwicklung die Veränderung der tariflichen Arbeitszeit. Die Zahl der insgesamt in der Bundesrepublik...

"In einer Zeit, in der westliche Länder sehr hohe Arbeitslosenquoten erleben, verkünden die Länder des COMECON (Bulgarien, DDR, Polen, Rumänien, Tschechoslowakei, UdSSR, Ungarn) triumphierend, daß sie diese Geißel für immer ausgemerzt und die Vollbeschäftigung verwirklicht haben. Dennoch...

"The report examines the quantitative and qualitative structural change in employment in the period from 1985 to 1995. In the first part sectoral structures are analysed, in the second part occupation and training structures. The regions examined are the old Länder (i.e. former West Germany)...