In the empirical literature on labour supply, several static models are developed to incorporate constraints on working hours. These models do not address to what extent working hours are constrained within jobs, and to what extent working hours can be adjusted by means of changing employer. The...

Anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit, wie sie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in vielen anderen Staaten vorherrscht, ist ein wirtschaftspolitisches, aber auch ein wirtschaftstheoretisches Problem. Zu den theoretischen Ansätzen, die einen Beitrag zum Verständnis anhaltender Arbeitslosigkeit...

This paper utilises a multi-country microsimulation tax-benefit model for Europe, EUROMOD, to simulate the distribution of net replacement rates for 13 European countries. We look at different types of labour market transitions by comparing household incomes in the current state with simulated...

We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...