Die Studie untersucht die Effekte der Zunahme der österreichischen Direktinvestitionen in das Ausland, sowie der Importe und Exporte Österreichs auf die inländische Beschäftigung, die Löhne und Gehälter, sowie auf die funktionale Einkommensverteilung. Dabei werden die genannten Effekte...

According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. This would generate a trade-off between job opportunities and job stability. This paper...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers....