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...

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

It is now a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gap in living standards between eastern and western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the...

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...