We develop new evidence on job recruitments and vacancy durations using a rich source of data on individual hires. Our core data set contains 55,000 recruitments into vacant job positions for stratified random samples of German employers from 2000 to 2010. We have information about the employer,...

Im Jahr 2013 haben deutsche Betriebe und Verwaltungen rund 4,9 Mio. Mitarbeiter neu eingestellt, darunter waren 0,8 Mio. Neueinstellungen in Ostdeutschland. Für das laufende Jahr rechnen die Betriebe weiter mit einem anhaltenden Beschäftigungsaufbau. Ein Teil von ihnen berichtet über...

Der Beruf des Erziehers/der Erzieherin hat stark an Bedeutung gewonnen, insbesondere durch den Ausbau der Kindertagesbetreuung, dem Haupttätigkeitsfeld von Erzieherinnen und Erziehern. Auswertungen der IAB-Stellenerhebung, einer repräsentativen Arbeitgeberbefragung, weisen für den Zeitraum...

Der Beruf des Erziehers/der Erzieherin hat stark an Bedeutung gewonnen, insbesondere durch den Ausbau der Kindertagesbetreuung, dem Haupttätigkeitsfeld von Erzieherinnen und Erziehern. Auswertungen der IAB-Stellenerhebung, einer repräsentativen Arbeitgeberbefragung, weisen für den Zeitraum...

This paper investigates the capital market relations between Euroland and the USA from 1990 until 2006. Formally based on the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP), backward recursive estimations establish a long-run equilibrium between European and US government bond yields. Since the mid-1990s...

The present paper embarks on an analysis of interactions between the US and Euroland in the capital, foreign exchange, money and stock markets from 1994 until 2006. Considering influences on financial market volatility, the estimations are carried out in multivariate EGARCH models using...

This paper proposes estimating causalities in bilateral international trade in simultaneous systems, including domestic and foreign GDP as well as mutual trade flows. Conventional macroeconomic theory mainly follows partial approaches like import functions or exportled growth. Focusing on the US...

The subject of this paper tackles questions of macroeconomic integration of the South-East Asian countries South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Economically, the analysis is based on notions of stochastic long-run convergence and business cycle synchrony in the GDPs. According tests for...

This paper demonstrates effects of economic convergence processes on the foreign exchange behaviour in a monetary modelling approach. Since the exchange rate represents the relative price of two currencies, commonness of stochastic trends between the fundamental determinants of supply and demand...