"Secondary jobholding is a persistent phenomenon in both Germany and the UK. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male and female workers separately. Whereas the results vary across gender and countries, there is support for both...

"In this study the length of time spent out of work by men and women in the Federal Republic of Germany and Great Britain is examined for the period 1990-1995 on the basis of the EPAG data set. The results show that the duration of unemployment among women in eastern and western Germany was...

"The labour market in Germany is predominated by the full-time standard employment relationship. Nevertheless, since the reunification at the latest we observe a continuous increase in part-time employment. On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) from 1991 to 2006, we investigate...

"The study reports comprehensively about further vocational training activities in the context of regular employment relationships in western and eastern Germany. In a comparative analysis of the participants in and the structure of further vocational training special emphasis is placed on a...

"Since 1993 the IAB has maintained a representative information system of the demand side of the labour market in the form of its establishment panel for western Germany. With the inclusion of the new federal states in 1996, the formation of the IAB panel was completed in the whole of Germany....

"Following the economic collapse in eastern Germany, in addition to the high level of unemployment, a hidden labour force of a considerable size has also developed in the new Länder. The IAB estimates the hidden labour force in the new Länder for 1997 to be more than 800,000 people. This...

Die Bundesanstalt für Arbeit hat im Herbst 1990 Infratest Sozialforschung damit beauftragt, in den neuen Bundesländern in regelmäßigen Abständen Arbeitsmarkt-Umfragen bei 10 000 repräsentativ ausgewählten Bürgern im Alter von 16 bis 64 Jahren durchzuführen. Der Beitrag beschreibt...

"In the empirical part of this article above all the influence of the employer side on the retirement trend in western Germany between 1975 and 1990 is examined. The data basis is the IAB employment sample, which is evaluated separately according to gender and year of birth for those born in the...

"Die Qualifikationsstruktur einer Bevölkerung zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt ist im wesentlichen das Ergebnis bildungspolitischer Entwicklungen in der Vergangenheit. An den Zahlen über den Anteil der Hochschulabsolventen in den einzelnen Altersjahren bei der letzten Volkszählung in der DDR...