Prices of identical products differ tremendously among EU countries. Prices of IKEA products range by more than 40% on average, which is far more than the 12% price difference the EU Commission regards as compatible with competitive markets. These price differences can only partly be attributed...

Women work much more in the US than in Germany and most other EU economies. We find that the US-German employment gap is not strongly related to cross-country differences in the level of pay or social benefits. The difference in employment is due to the different marketization of activities...

Das Papier geht zunächst auf die theoretischen Zusammenhänge zwischen Arbeitsmarktmobilität und Beschäftigungsstabilität in Zusammenhang mit institutionellen Regelungen ein. Es werden dann Operationalisierungen von Beschäftigungsstabilität und Arbeitsmarktmobilität diskutiert und eine...

"Education is the 'raw material' of the knowledge-based society which is at the centre of the new neo-classical growth theory, and most of all at the heart of the evolutionary growth theory, as the innovation capabilities of economies depend on human capital. According to the more recent...

Der Beitrag wurde auf einer wissenschaftlichen Tagung anlässlich des dreißigjährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit präsentiert. Der Autor zeigt darin einige Entwicklungen der niederländischen Volkswirtschaft auf und diskutiert...

Germany's more compressed wage structure is widely viewed as the main cause of the German-US difference in employment and unemployment, but part of the compression is due to Germany having a narrower distribution of skills than the US. Even adjusted for skills, however, we find that Germany has...

The conventional wisdom is that inflexible labor markets have held Europe back. But if this is true, why are Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Ireland doing so well?