"The labor markets of most industrialized countries are polarized. This means that employment has grown in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. However, there exists no measure that allows a...

"Based on the Linked-Employer-Employee data from the IAB (LIAB) we show how the horizontal occupational segregation of men and women in German establishments developed between 1996 and 2005. For this purpose we apply the dissimilarity index and the standardized dissimilarity index at the...

"'Marginal employment', i. e. employment with low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set from the Employment Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency and...

"This study uses recent data taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002-2006) to evaluate the extent of and heterogeneity in returns to tenure for men in eastern and western Germany, employed in both the private and the public sector. We find significantly different wage patterns in...

"Start-ups of new businesses can influence employment in different ways. The indirect effects, particularly improvements of competitiveness that may result from the entry of new competitors, are often more important than the employment in the new businesses. Recent empirical studies have shown...

"This article uses the total population of firms, as contained in the Employee History ('Beschäftigten-Historik') of the IAB, to analyse the dynamics of employment in establishments of different size classes. This analysis is therefore the first of its kind to include all economic sectors for...

"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to more strongly encourage an adult worker model of the family, with an emphasis on activating the formerly inactive. Our hypothesis is, however, that assignments to activation...

Seit 2005 pendeln immer mehr Auszubildende aus Niedersachsen aus. Der Pendlersaldo gerät immer tiefer ins Minus. Im Rahmen dieser Studie sollen auf der Basis von Arbeitsmarktregionen Ursachen für diese Entwicklung aufgezeigt werden. Mit der 'Betrieblichen Ausbildungsdichte', dem Verhältnis...

Einerseits konnte Niedersachsen unter den westlichen Bundesländern in den letzten zehn Jahren mit Abstand die zweithöchsten Beschäftigungsgewinne verbuchen. Andererseits fällt die - auch bundesweit - negative Differenz der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigungsquoten der Frauen zu...

In dieser Arbeit werden regionale Beschäftigungsunterschiede zwischen Niedersachsen und den anderen westlichen Bundesländern, aber auch zwischen drei niedersächsischen Regionstypen analysiert. Vor allem der getrennten Betrachtung der Beschäftigung von Frauen und Männern kommt hierbei eine...