simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …

simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …

The situation on the labour market in East Germany is difficult since the beginning of economic transition in the early … 90's. The reasons for such a situation are complex. The implementation of single currency, the collapse of East Germany … persistently high unemployment rate are supported by microeconomic reasons, too. The unification of Germany was not perceived as a …

inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing …

on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labor market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market reforms promoting in particular non-standard forms of …

) the situation in Germany, it claims a cultural gap between traditional unions and employees in the expanding precarious …

countries in the period 2000-2010. We compare 5 major EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) with …