I Einführung -- 1 Der Arbeitsmarkt im Überblick: Fragen an die Arbeitsmarktökonomik -- II Die Entscheidung der privaten Haushalte über die optimale Zeitallokation -- 2 Das Arbeitsangebot -- 3 Investitionen in das Humankapital -- III Die Firmenentscheidung über den optimalen Arbeitseinsatz...

We examine whether aggregate cost stickiness predicts future macrolevel unemployment rate. We incorporate aggregate cost stickiness into three different classes of forecasting models studied in prior literature, and demonstrate an improvement in forecasting performance for all three models. For...

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....