"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...

In dem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse zweier repräsentativer Betriebsbefragungen über Ausmaß, Struktur und Entwicklung des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots, Einschaltung der Arbeitsämter sowie über Probleme und betriebliche Reaktionen im Falle nicht besetzbarer Stellen vorgelegt. Nach den...

"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...

"In the 'further training' survey focus of the 1997 IAB establishment panel information was collected concerning the distribution and extent of various forms of company training, the participation of individual groups of workers as well as reasons for a lack of further training. The empirical...

"In this company expectations for 1998 concerning employment and training are analysed with the aid of descriptive and multivariate procedures, and separately for western and eastern Germany. The data for this study was collected in the fifth wave of the IAB establishment panel in western...

"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...

"On the basis of data from the 'further training' survey focus of the 1997 IAB establishment panel, this report explains that the intensity of company further training indeed varies considerably between the different qualification and status groups. In particular qualified non-manual employees...

"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...