"In this article the contributions to the unemployment insurance scheme and the expenditure on the benefits under this scheme are estimated from the microdata of the IAB employment sample for the period 1980-1989. The distribution of contributions and expenditure is estimated according to three...

"More flexible and shorter working hours have helped relieve the labour market by increasing employment prospects since 1960 and even more noticeably since the employment crisis of the mid-70s. The advantages of creating part-time work for employees and for firms are now undisputed. Hence, the...

"In this article the contributions to the unemployment insurance scheme and the expenditure on the benefits under this scheme are estimated from the microdata of the IAB employment sample for the period 1980-1989. The distribution of contributions and expenditure is estimated according to three...

"Im Oktober 1991 befragte das Ostberliner Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 8047 Treuhandunternehmen, von denen 61% mit gut zwei Dritteln aller THA-Beschäftigten antworteten, sowie 2039 Ex-Treuhandfirmen, von denen 45% mit ebenfalls gut zwei Dritteln der dort Beschäftigten antworteten....

"Im Oktober 1991 befragte das Ostberliner Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 8047 Treuhandunternehmen, von denen 61% mit gut zwei Dritteln aller THA-Beschäftigten antworteten, sowie 2039 Ex-Treuhandfirmen, von denen 45% mit ebenfalls gut zwei Dritteln der dort Beschäftigten antworteten....

"The number of western German women who wish to work has increased continuously since the mid-sixties irrespective of the economic development. In eastern Germany it remained at a high level in spite of continuously high unemployment. With the crisis on the labour market in the early nineties,...

"The number of western German women who wish to work has increased continuously since the mid-sixties irrespective of the economic development. In eastern Germany it remained at a high level in spite of continuously high unemployment. With the crisis on the labour market in the early nineties,...