Ein Blick über die Grenzen auf die "beschäftigungspolitisch erfolgreichen" Länder Dänemark, Niederlande, Großbritannien und Schweden zeigt, dass dort nicht nur die Arbeitslosenquoten gering und die Beschäftigungsquoten hoch sind, sondern auch die Inaktivitätsquoten von...

Im Jahr 1999 wurde das Jugendsofortprogramm der damaligen rot-grünen Bundesregierung zum Abbau der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit initiiert und mehrere Jahre fortgeführt. Im Rahmen des Sofortprogramms "Jugend mit Perspektive" wurden bis zum Jahr 2003 zahlreiche Maßnahmen angeboten, die danach zum...

"Im Jahr 1999 wurde das Jugendsofortprogramm der damaligen rot-grünen Bundesregierung zum Abbau der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit initiiert und mehrere Jahre fortgeführt. Im Rahmen des Sofortprogramms 'Jugend mit Perspektive' wurden bis zum Jahr 2003 zahlreiche Maßnahmen angeboten, die danach zum...

"This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from...

"In this paper we analyse the health effects of fixed-term contract status for men and women in West-Germany and Spain using panel data. This paper asks whether changes in the employment relationship, as a result of the liberalisation of employment law, have altered the positive health effects...

In this paper we analyse the health effects of fixed-term contract status for men and women in West-Germany and Spain using panel data. This paper asks whether changes in the employment relationship, as a result of the liberalisation of employment law, have altered the positive health effects...

"In this paper we analyse the health effects of fixed-term contract status for men and women in West-Germany and Spain using panel data. This paper asks whether changes in the employment relationship, as a result of the liberalisation of employment law, have altered the positive health effects...

"The flexibility of European labour markets is widely discussed by researchers and politicians. To explore the reactions of wages to regional unemployment for the first time data from a national representative survey of establishments (the IAB Establishment Panel) has been used. The results...

"The Wage Curve is estimated using average wage data for 327 West German districts for the years 1987-1993. Detailed information on the sectoral composition of employment is used tocontrol for the sectoral wage structure. The influence of the choice of the spatial units is reduced by taking into...

"Using large data sets from the German employment and unemployment register 1985-2004, we investigate aggregate wage cyclicality and the wage curve for establishment stayers and movers. We find that movers' wage responses to aggregate unemployment rate changes exceed these of stayers by about...