Der Bericht informiert über die Kostenstrukturen und den Finanzbedarf bei ausgewählten Trägern der überörtlichen Sozialhilfe. Im Auftrag des Sächsischen Staatsministerium der Finanzen wurden verschiedene Bundesländer bezüglich deren überörtlichen Träger, des Gültigkeitsbereiches und...

The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that the groups of women and part-timers generate employer...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die Lohnunterschiede zwischen unbefristet und befristet Beschäftigten und zwischen Vollzeit- und Teilzeitbeschäftigten in Russland. Die Analyse basiert auf dem Mikrodatensatz des Household Survey of Welfare, der im Jahr 2003 von Rosstat und der Weltbank...

Previous analyses of Japanese employment practices have often focused almost exclusively on regular employment, relegating non-regular employment to a role as employment buffer. However, recent years have seen a rise in non-regular employment which requires a renewed analysis of its role and...

We empirically study the role of different family policies in determining women´s labor market behavior in the countries of the European Union between 1997 and 2008. Women tend to assume more family duties than men and, consequently, often participate less in the labor market. At the same time,...

Strong macroeconomic foundations have so far largely shielded the Netherlands from recent financial turbulence. Despite a tightening labor market, inflation remains subdued. Employment has grown 1¼–1½ percent in 2007, on par with the rest of the Euro area. The external current...

Most industrialized countries have seen part-time employment as a percentage of total employment increase in the last decade. This paper presents the results of a comparative study of part-time employment in Spain and the Netherlands. The project comprised a legal comparative study of the...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of different factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, education levels, occupations, enterprise characteristics, place of residence etc. on part-time employment and underemployment. The data sources used in the research are Latvian Labour Force...