In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

Auch fünf Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung gibt es neben dem Mikrozensus nur eine - zweitgeteilte - Datenquelle, durch die die Struktur aller Freiberufler und ihrer Büros und Praxen in Ost- und Westdeutschland analysiert werden kann.In einem ersten Teil der Arbeit wird die jährlich...

Auch fünf Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung gibt es neben dem Mikrozensus nur eine - zweitgeteilte - Datenquelle, durch die die Struktur aller Freiberufler und ihrer Büros und Praxen in Ost- und Westdeutschland analysiert werden kann.In einem ersten Teil der Arbeit wird die jährlich...

To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...

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....