Geflüchtete in Deutschland müssen etliche Hürden überwinden, um eine Anstellung zu finden. Ein Grund dafür ist die Verteilung der Geflüchteten nach dem Königsteiner Schlüssel, der die Arbeitsmarktsituation in den Kreisen und Städten nicht berücksichtigt. Dieser Wochenbericht betrachtet...

In the past forty years the Chinese economy achieved miracle growth and many attributed a significant part of this to China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in...

The paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is extended to include the full age distribution. The...

Social contributive insurance systems which are based on the repartition principle between generations are strongly influenced by the demographic evolutions.

Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung in Sachsen wurde im Rahmen dieser Studie ein belastbares Szenario für den Dresdner Arbeitsmarkt bis 2020 erarbeitet. Da sich die Stadt Dresden trotz einer positiven Bevölkerungsentwicklung nicht vom Bevölkerungsrückgang im Umland abkoppeln...

Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung im ifo Arbeitsbereich "Sozialpolitik und Arbeitsmärkte" erstellt und im Juni 2005 abgeschlossen, um die Arbeit der von der Bosch Stiftung initiierten Kommission "Familie und demographischer Wandel" zu unterstützen. Gegenstand...

This paper utilises OECD bi-annual data from the Economic Outlook database to estimate the extent of hidden unemployment in selected OECD countries. The labour force variations attributable to an economy operating at below full employment level are computed by using a regression modelling...

Various studies concerning urbanized regions show a general relation among different socio-economic and demographic variables. This study, worked out in the mirror of the distance framework, has the principal object to find out the relation between economic variables (work participation in...

The paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is extended to include the full age distribution. The...

This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss labor force because they have an high no-labor income,...