"This paper examines the impact of minimum wage in a dominant firm model. It is shown that in a labor-intensive market, the introduction of a binding minimum wage creates an entry barrier in the short run and increases unemployment in the long run." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

In diesem Aufsatz gehen wir der Frage nach, wie sich die Einführung eines Mindestlohns in einem 'Dominante-Firma-Modell' auswirken wird. Wir haben gezeigt, dass in einer arbeitsintensiven Industrie, die von einem Großunternehmen dominiert wird, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns kurzfristig zu...

In diesem Aufsatz gehen wir der Frage nach, wie sich die Einführung eines Mindestlohns in einem 'Dominante-Firma-Modell' auswirken wird. Wir haben gezeigt, dass in einer arbeitsintensiven Industrie, die von einem Großunternehmen dominiert wird, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns kurzfristig zu...

"This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labour market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passives labour market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy, the...

"This paper reconsiders the West German wage curve using the employment statistics of the Federal Employment Services of Germany (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. This updates the earlier study by Baltagi and Blien (1998) by 15 years for a more disaggregated 326 regions of...

"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...

"We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data,...

"Policy simulations for national economies with econometric models in general are done using a stand alone national model with exogenous export values and import prices. In a globalised world such an exercise is critical, since the policy in question may change the export prices and the import...

"This paper illustrates the effects of item-nonresponse in surveys on the results of multivariate statistical analysis when estimation of productivity is the task. To multiply impute the missing data a data augmentation algorithm based on a normal/Wishart model is applied. Data of the German IAB...