In the past few years numerous studies have dealt with the employment effects of Germany's dismissal protection legislation. The majority of the studies, however, found no significant effects on aggregate exit and entry rates in the firms affected. In our analysis we estimate the effect of...

This paper presents recent empirical evidence on the extent and determinants of employment dynamics and job mobility, building on economic theory and German labor market institutions. In particular, it identifies dynamic and immobile segments of the labor market. Conclusions are drawn with...

Jede Periode in Arbeitslosigkeit führt für die betreffende Person zu einer erhöhten Wahrscheinlichkeit, später erneut arbeitslos zu werden oder es dauerhaft zu bleiben. Hierfür kann es verschiedene Gründe geben. In einer Studie von Biewen und Steffes (2008) wird analysiert, ob...

Die voranschreitende Digitalisierung wird die Arbeitswelt verändern und dies auf verschiedene Weise: Zum einen werden neue Geschäftsmodelle und Wettbewerbsstrukturen entstehen, zum anderen werden sich Arbeitsinhalte und die Organisation von Produktions- und Arbeitsprozessen wandeln. Was...

New administrative data have recently permitted a differentiated and dynamic evaluation of the employment effects of measures of further vocational training in Germany which have been conducted in the context of active labour market policy. The data available for this purpose include firstly...

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most countries, only a portion of people who are currently poor are persistently poor. People who are persistently poor or who cycle into and out of poverty should be the main focus of...

The incidence of employment interruptions and temporary part-time work has grown strongly among full-time workers, yet little is known about the impact on wage inequality. This is the first study showing that such episodes play a substantial role for the rise in inequality of full-time wages,...

After an economically tough start to the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after 2005, only stopped by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a...