This paper addresses the role of independent insurance intermediaries in markets where matching is important. A controversial matter in the discussion concerning insurance intermediation is the issue of compensation customs and how the latter affect prices, rents and advice quality in insurance...

The goal of this first report of the 'Benchmarking Employment Offices - Nordic and Other European Comparisons (acronym BEO) is an analytical comparison of the Danish, Finnish and Swedish labour market policy principles and structures primarily from a practical point of view. The purpose is to...

Job rotation as an important element of labour market policy has only a rather short tradition in most Member States of the European Union, except in the scandinavian countries. The transnational partnership job rotation was founded at the end of 1995 and financing for job rotation projects came...

Die gekoppelte Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung in Heizkraftwerken stellt zweifellos eine bedeutende Strategie zur Verminderung der vom Energieeinsatz ausgehenden Umweltprobleme dar. Zudem ist es volkswirtschaftlich gesehen vorteilhaft, den Raumwärme- und Warmwasserbedarf mit...

Die Erhöhung der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen ist eines der vorrangigen Ziele der Europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie, mit dem nicht nur die Chancengleichheit zwischen den Geschlechtern, sondern auch wirtschaftliche Zielsetzungen (Erhöhung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Finanzierbarkeit des...

Zum 31.12.2009 läuft die Förderung der Altersteilzeit durch die Bundesagentur für Arbeit aus. Das Altersteilzeitgesetz besteht darüber hinaus jedoch fort. Daher melden sich unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Gruppen mit Vorschlägen zu Wort, wie die Altersteilzeit sich zukünftig gestalten...

This paper presents a model yielding testable implications concerning the long-run co-movements of real exchange rates, relative productivity, the trade balance and terms of trade. Countries with higher productivity, trade deficits or improved terms of trade are found to have more appreciated...

Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more substantially, Denmark. A voluntary system has the positive feature of other user-cost schemes, potentially efficient targeting of services. This presumes rational behavior as well...

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...

This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...