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...

Die Verlagerung der Bochumer Produktion des Handyherstellers Nokia nach Rumänien hat in der Öffentlichkeit für erhebliches Aufsehen gesorgt.Die Ausarbeitung, die auf einem Gutachtenauftrag beruht, untersucht normativ unter Einbeziehung der Faktenlage, wie zeit- und kostenaufwändig eine...

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....