Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms to smooth their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show...

Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms to smooth their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce layoffs and inhibit increases in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show...

Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms smoothing their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal choice of hours by a firm I show that...

In dieser Stellungnahme äußert sich das IAB zu einem Antrag der Fraktion der Piraten des Landtags von Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Aussetzung der Sanktionen im ALG-II-Bezug (Drucksache 16/4162). Die Fraktion der Piraten fordert eine Aussetzung der Sanktionen im ALG-II-Bezug, weil ihrer Ansicht nach...

This paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for East Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. It concentrates on exit from unemployment into employment. Estimation results of a discrete-time hazard rate model imply that moderate cuts in the...

This study compares the duration of new job matches in the east and west German labour market that formed between the start of the German Economic, Monetary and Social Union in July 1990 and December 2000. The study relies on job duration data drawn from the German Socio-economic Panel. It shows...

Mit Einführung eines Bürgergeldes will die Bundesregierung auch die durch das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 5. November 2019 erforderlich gewordene gesetzliche Neuregelung der Leistungsminderungen in der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende (sogenannte SGB-II-Sanktionen) umsetzen....