"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...

"The labour market monitor, which was carried out in the new federal states from 1990 to 1994 by Infratest Sozialforschung on commission for the Public Employment Service provides, like only very few longitudinal records, the possibility to show the turbulences of the post-reunification period....

"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...

"With the introduction of the Employment Promotion Act (GDR) on 01.07.1990, short-time working benefit was put to use as an employment and training measure in eastern Germany, too. In particular in the first year after reunification it contributed on a large scale to relieving the pressure on...

"In the article the extent and distribution of recalls in the Federal Republic of Germany are examinded for the first time and are related to all the cases of recruitment in employment covered by the social security system. The empirical results are based on the evaluations of the IAB employment...

"The article analyses the expansion of the supply of workers by temporary employment agencies in the Federal Republic of Germany up until 1995. An empirical section contains an evaluation of information regarding the structures of the three parties involved, the agency workers, the temporary...

"With the introduction of the Employment Promotion Act (GDR) on 01.07.1990, short-time working benefit was put to use as an employment and training measure in eastern Germany, too. In particular in the first year after reunification it contributed on a large scale to relieving the pressure on...

"The labour market monitor, which was carried out in the new federal states from 1990 to 1994 by Infratest Sozialforschung on commission for the Public Employment Service provides, like only very few longitudinal records, the possibility to show the turbulences of the post-reunification period....