The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...

Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland ist angesichts der hohen Kosten, der Hinweise auf geringe oder gar fehlende Effektivität aktiver Maßnahmen und der Diskussion über negative Anreizeffekte der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in die Kritik geraten. Dieser Band bietet eine umfassende...