Main description: Der Wirtschaftspolitische Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik hatte für seine Jahrestagung 2007 das Rahmenthema "Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung" gewählt. Der hier vorliegende Tagungsband dokumentiert die wesentlichen Aussagen und Ergebnisse dieser Zusammenkunft.Hierzu...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Concepts of Job Security and Job Flexibility -- Chapter 3. Job Flexicurity -- Chapter 4. A Macroeconomic View on the Job Flexicurity -- Chapter 5. A (Stylized) Formal Modelling of Job Flexicurity -- Chapter 6. An (Illustrative) Case Study on Romania./.

We develop a Dynamic-Stochastic-General-Equilibrium model to study the macro welfare effects of flexible labor contracts. Capturing the empirical properties observed in the data, we incorporate two labor sectors in our DSGE framework: a fixed sector and a flexible sector. The fixed sector offers...

Almost 15 years after Unification in 1990, Germany is still struggling with the economic consequences of this event. Although the East German economy has made considerable progress since its near-collapse after the German monetary, economic and social union in July 1990, the East German labour...

This paper examines the effect of monopolistic labour unions' behavior on governments' incentives to undertake labour market reform, inside and outside a symmetric and an asymmetric monetary union (MU). Incentives for reform are increased inside the MU when governments and labour unions move...