"Based on the two IAB establishment surveys - the IAB Establishment Panel and the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - this report sheds light on the German labour market from the firms' perspective and gives information about the labour demand and resulting skills shortages for the years 2006 to 2012. With...

"Occupations can be considered as an institution of the labour market, which has varying power to connect the educational system with the labour market. In order to make these institutional characteristics of occupations accessible for empirical analyses, I developed an indicator to measure the...

"Occupations can be considered as an institution of the labour market, which has varying power to connect the educational system with the labour market. In order to make these institutional characteristics of occupations accessible for empirical analyses, I developed an indicator to measure the...

"The IAB-ALWA study (Work and Learning in a Changing World) was conducted between September 2007 and March 2008 on behalf of the IAB. The aim of this representative telephone survey was to collect systematically educational and employment histories of 10,000 adults who were between 18 and 50...

Neuere Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Lohnunterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern zunehmen. Friederike Maier, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, betont, dass nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamts im Vergleich von erwerbstätigen Männern und Frauen weiterhin eine große Lohnlücke...

Dieser Report dokumentiert die methodischen Ansätze für die beruflichen Alterungs- und Fachkräfteverfügbarkeitsanalysen im Projekt Work&Age - Berufe im Demografischen Wandel und ist damit die Grundlage für die fachliche Diskussion. Ziel des Projekts Work & Age war es, die...

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...

The paper deals with the regulation of professions in Italy. It is a very traditional system of regulation based on inputs control. This regulation is clearly excessive for most of the professions. In fact, market failures - both in terms of information asymmetries and externalities - do not...

The market has both a coordination function and an incentive function. The first theorem of welfare economics is all about coordination; the principal-agent model is all about incentives. What is the relative importance of the market in carrying out these two functions? While there has been a...