"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

Purpose – This paper is a cross-national study of the incidence of part-time work. The purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent the difference between Germany and The Netherlands can be explained from the demand side of the labour market. Design/methodology/approach – Several...

"Often the high level of unemployment in Germany is explained by a lack of flexibility, over-regulation in the labour market and disincentives of the social security system. However, these institutional effects are difficult to test by means of data from only one country. Cross-country...

In the selection of new employees four hiring categories are distinguished: from another job, school-leavers, unemployed and non-participants. Concluded is that for the selection process the labour market situation is less important than the characteristics of employers and jobs. More workers...

"Theoretically greater wage flexibility, i.e. larger wage dispersion according to industry, regions, occupational groups and qualifications, fosters employment growth. At the same time the number of vacancies can be decreased and the number of unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed, can...

Mit einem einheitlichen Erhebungsbogen für die Betriebe aller Betriebsgrößen und Branchen startete im Sommer 1993 die erste Welle des "IAB-Betriebspanels". Der Rücklauf betrug 71%. Aus den ersten Querschnittsauswertungen ergeben sich die folgenden Eckdaten: - Die westdeutsche Wirtschaft...

In dem Beitrag werden zunächst Ansätze und Methoden von Evaluationsstudien beschrieben. Danach werden die Beiträge des Schwerpunktheftes vorgestellt. Diese verdeutlichen die Notwendigkeit der Evaluation aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik, diskutieren die damit zusammenhängenden methodischen...

"The paper examines the influence of schooling and work experience on the development of wage inequality in the 1990s. On the basis of the employment and benefit recipients historical data file as well as the IAB employment sample, Mincer-type earnings functions are estimated as Tobit and...

"This paper deals with company expectations for 1997 with regard to employment. For this, details from the IAB establishment panel are examined separately for East (1st wave) and West (4th wave) with the aid of descriptive and multivariate methods. It can be seen that companies of individual...