sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings … statistically significant point estimate of the elasticity of the duration of sickness absence with respect to the replacement rate …

respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …'s employment protection system. Also, provisions should be made to allow for a higher degree of wage flexibility across …

reciprocal loyalty in the employment relationship. It uses a vignettes approach to elicit preferences and a novel dataset with …

employment. There has also been a decline in the number of employed people and in the average number of hours worked per week …