Themes of the paper are differences in unemployment rates between East and West Germany and the spatial differentiation in the East. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is still a strong division between the economies and labour markets of Eastern and Western Germany. In the last...

The employment situation of older workers in Germany used to be poor. However, in recent years it has improved considerably. Germany has shifted its policies to strengthen the labor market performance of older workers. Policy has focused on less early exits of older workers and far-reaching...

The Minimum wage in the roofing sector, which was introduced in 1997 and transferred to a national and generally binding level in 2003, has particularly affected the sector in Eastern Germany, even in an international comparison. However, the concomitant effective cost burden is limited. Based...

This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2006 to compute two different measures of person-to-job matching. A first measure indicates an educational (mis)match, i.e., whether a worker's attained level...

This paper focuses on the German labor market for older workers. It does so in comparison with other countries and with a unique focus on the role of employer incentives for retaining and hiring older workers. It argues that while employment of older German workers has improved due to changes in...

Gegenstand dieses Berichts ist eine detaillierte Analyse des beschäftigungsseitigen Arbeitsmarktgeschehens in der Arbeitsmarktregion Bremen. Hierzu wird für die Jahre 2001 bis 2007 der Gesamtumfang aller Einstellungen und Entlassungen sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigter nach Branchen...

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, I show that, in line with the existing literature for several countries, firms' adjustment costs for employment are characterized by a fixed and convex functional form. Furthermore, they are asymmetric with dismissal costs exceeding...

The German system of skill formation, in particular the dual system of vocational education and training (VET), is considered in the political economic debate to be a pillar of the German model, mainly for two reasons: On the one hand, training of skilled workers was supported by the specific...

Die Erwerbstätigkeit von Frauen hat seit 1991 kontinuierlich zugenommen und sich jener der Männer angenähert. Heute sind mit 47 Prozent fast die Hälfte der Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland Frauen. Allerdings gibt der Erwerbstätigenanteil allein nur wenig Aufschluss über die tatsächliche...