Das baden-württembergische Handwerk erwartet einen zunehmenden Mangelan qualifiziertem Nachwuchs. Diese in Anbetracht der absehbaren demographischenVeränderungen bedrohliche Entwicklung war Anlass für eine Studieder Akademie für Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA-Akademie), die in...

Mit der vorliegenden Studie präsentiert die TA-Akademie eine umfassendeEinschätzung zur Lage der technischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Berufe,wobei aufgrund des aktuellen Mangels insbesondere die Ingenieurberufe imMittelpunkt der Betrachtung stehen.Auf Basis einer empirischen Analyse und...

This report uses research findings from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) to outline important features of the Swedish labour market in general, and the industrial relations system in particular, as well as the issues both are currently facing.

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they move from central planning to a market economy in the early 1990s. We use firm level panel data sets from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic...

Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...