"Der Bericht präsentiert revidierte Schätzungen für die Stille Reserve und das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial Ostdeutschlands. Die aktuellen Berechnungen berücksichtigen insbesondere die Erkenntnisse über die geringfügige Beschäftigung und integrieren diese für eine Korrektur der Erwerbsquoten...

"The article analyses how the hidden labour force has developed in the recent past and what role the far-reaching modifications ensuing from the labour market reforms of 2005 (Hartz IV) have played. Estimations published by IAB in 2005 are used as a starting point. On the basis of these...

"Die Bevölkerungsprojektion bestätigt weitgehend die bereits bekannten Tendenzen: Die Deutschen werden immer weniger und immer älter. Die Projektion schätzt die Zahl der Deutschen getrennt nach Ost und West, sowie die Zahl der in Deutschland lebenden Ausländer mit einem Komponentenmodell...

"This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force in East and West Germany into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age structure of the population. The second effect is the...

"Der Forschungsbericht beschreibt die IAB-Projektion des Erwerbspersonenpotenzials bis zum Jahr 2050. Die Vorausschätzung basiert auf den zwei Grundbausteinen Bevölkerungsprojektion und Projektion der Potenzialerwerbsquoten. Die Rechnungen sind disaggregiert nach Altersgruppen und Geschlecht...

"This paper provides a decomposition of the projected change in the overall labour force in East and West Germany into three parts. The first, called the 'demographic component', shows the effects of fertility, mortality and a changing age structure of the population. The second effect is the...

"This article provides the most recent population projections of the IAB. The results confirm the well-known overall development: The forecast shows a substantially decreasing and ageing population in Germany up to 2060. This trend is attributable only to fertility, as low birth rates determine...

"Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term training and on their long-run effects. This paper estimates the effects of short-term training...

"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 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...