Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …

non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million …Seit ihrem Höhepunkt im Februar 2005 sank die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland innerhalb von drei Jahren von 5 …

a search and matching model; empirically, we exploit an Italian labour market reform which increased flexibility in a … difference in differences framework. We find that new entrants in the labour market who have been affected by the reform … experienced a decrease in the conversion rate of approximately 12.5 percentage points in the first months after the reform, and of …

countries - Germany and France - on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching … labour market, which replicates the data quite well. We then explore the reform possibilities in the French labour market and …