"Für die Arbeitsagenturen stellen die Bewegungen auf den regionalen Arbeitsmärkten entscheidende Größen dar, die es bei der Beratung und Vermittlung wie bei der Ausrichtung der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu beachten gilt. Das Mehrkontenmodell (MKM) ermöglicht eine systematische Darstellung...

"In the last years the analysis of flow figures turned out to highly informative for labour market research and policy advice. Among researchers it is a well known fact that cross-sectional information about labour market is not sufficient to understand ungoing development. A pure sequence of...

"In recent years analyses based on flow quantities have become more significant both in research and in policy advice. This paper presents the multiple accounts model, designed by us, which depicts regional transition processes in all employment offices in matrix form, and can therefore also be...

In the last years the analysis of flow figures turned out to be essential for labour market research and policy advice. The ongoing debate about how flexible is the German labour market could not been answered just analysing stock figures or turnover rates. Here we follow the useful analytical...

The analysis of labour market dynamics is essential for labour market research and policy advice. We develop a flexible flow approach system - a multi-accounting system (MAS) - dealing with flows and stocks on regional labour markets. Combining administrative data at the micro level with various...

"Jugendliche sind auf dem Weg ins Erwerbsleben mit einer Reihe von Arbeitsmarktübergängen konfrontiert. Der Arbeitsmarkt für Jugendliche ist durch zahlreiche Arbeitslosigkeitsphasen mit vergleichsweise kurzen Dauern und einer Vielzahl arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen geprägt. Um die...

"The Institute for Employment Research regularly informs about the current situation and future development on the labour market. For example, it serves as consultant of the Federal Employment Agency and its autonomous administrative bodies, and the Federal Ministry of Labour. Such information...

"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...

"Die Analyse der Arbeitsmarktdynamik ist von zentraler Bedeutung für die wissenschaftliche und politikorientierte Arbeitsmarktforschung. Die Arbeitskräftegesamtrechnung (AGR) des IAB stellt die Bestände und Bewegungen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt in aggregierter Form dar und trägt auf...

"As a reaction on high and persistent unemployment in Germany, the largest labour market reforms in post-war history were implemented between 2003 and 2005. We analyse the impact of the reform and its coincidence with an economic expansion on the efficiency of matching out of unemployment....