In the literature there are basically two main approaches that explain the positive link between the level of education and wages: the human-capital theory and the signalling/screening (collectively known as sorting) theory. We highlight the similarity and differences between these theories and...

While many studies estimated the effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) on the participants' labour market outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms...

Die Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt ist ein wichtiger Baustein für eine dauerhafte gesellschaftliche Integration. Sie gelingt Spätaussiedlern im Vergleich zu Ausländern und Deutschen weniger gut. Spätaussiedler sind viel stärker von Arbeitslosigkeit betroffen und seltener...

Spätestens mit Einführung des neuen Zuwanderungsgesetzes im Jahre 2005 hat in Deutschland ein Umdenken in der Integrations- und Zuwanderungspolitik eingesetzt. Neben zahlreichen Maßnahmen zur nachholenden Integration der bereits länger hier lebenden Migranten setzen Politik und Wirtschaft u....

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the...

"The labour-market policy-mix in Germany is increasingly being decided on a regional level. This requires additional knowledge about the regional development which (disaggregated) national forecasts cannot provide. Therefore, we separately forecast employment for the 176 German labour- market...

"The labour-market policy-mix in Germany is increasingly being decided on a regional level. This requires additional knowledge about the regional development which (disaggregated) national forecasts cannot provide. Therefore, we separately forecast employment for the 176 German labour- market...