"The strong external demand, combined with favourable supply conditions in Germany, has set in motion an economic recovery. There is reason to believe that the upswing will become stronger and more widespread in 1998. For this reason in the middle Variant II of the IAB alterna-tive calculations...

"Aufgrund einer Verknüpfung der Daten der Sonderfrage 'Innovation' im Ifo-Konjunkturtest und der IAB/Ifo-Produktivitätserhebungen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe konnte ein deutlicher positiver Zusammenhang zwischen Innovationsaktivitäten in den Jahren 1984 bis 1986 und kurz- sowie mittelfristigen...

"In the United States powerful job gains have been achieved in the last 25 years. In contrast the number of jobs in the European Union has increased comparatively little. At the same time unemployment has grown in two phases in the European countries whereas it remained at a comparatively low...

"Die tiefgreifenden Einbrüche auf dem Arbeitsmarkt in den letzten 10 Jahren haben auch zu starken Verwerfungen in den einzelnen Regionen geführt. Hier zeigen sich Aufgaben, aber auch Ansatzpunkte der regional gezielten Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Gesamtwirtschaftliche Strukturprobleme und...

"Erfreuliche Beschäftigungsgewinne auf der einen, anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit auf der anderen Seite prägen das gegenwärtige Bild des regionalen Arbeitsmarktes. Trotz beobachteter und weiterhin zu erwartender leichter Entspannungstendenzen bleibt das hohe und von Region zu Region...

"The prospects for economic development in 1999 are not bad. There is, however, an unusually large degree of uncertainty concerning the future development of the economy and the labour market. In view of this we are basing our alternative projection on a broad range of variation in the...

"The Swiss labour market situation is characterised by certain specific findings: the highest employment rate of all OECD countries, the highest part-time rate (after the 'world-champion in part-time employment', the Netherlands), the largest proportions of foreigners (with the exception of...

"The prospects for Germany's economic development are good at present. Nonetheless there are also uncertainties and downsides. For this reason our labour market forecast for 2000 is based on a range of assumptions for the actual economic growth. The overview includes the basic data of these...

In this study, we use Okun's Law to examine whether growth has been jobless in seventeen MENA countries. The methods used are the ARDL approach for the individual country and the panel data analysis for the entire sample. The period considered in this study is from 1980 to 2013. To test for...