"Using a fixed-effects panel-estimation of the years 2004 and 2005 of the IAB Establishment Panel, this article tries to answer the following question: Do the so-called One-Euro-Jobs have an effect on the growth rate of regular employment, covered by the social security system? The analysis...

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

"Die rund 200 000 Betriebe des Einzelhandels führten im Jahr der Untersuchung rd. 40 000 Änderungen durch, die Auswirkungen auf Arbeitskräfte hatten. Die Änderungsintensität im Einzelhandel ist damit deutlich geringer als die der Industrie, die in vergleichbaren Betrieben (mit mehr als 20...

"Grundlage dieser Untersuchung ist eine Unternehmensbefragung, die gemeinsam vom Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit und vom Ifo-Institut, München, entwickelt und durchgeführt wurde. Befragt wurde ein repräsentativer Kreis von Firmen aus...

"This paper deals with company expectations for 1997 with regard to employment. For this, details from the IAB establishment panel are examined separately for East (1st wave) and West (4th wave) with the aid of descriptive and multivariate methods. It can be seen that companies of individual...

"Potential skills shortages on the labour market are one of the main topics in the public focus in Germany after the financial crisis of the late 2000s. This paper is one of the results of a project funded by the German federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and contributes to the...

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

"Using a fixed-effects panel-estimation of the years 2004 and 2005 of the IAB Establishment Panel, this article tries to answer the following question: Do the so-called One-Euro-Jobs have an effect on the growth rate of regular employment, covered by the social security system? The analysis...