"This paper analyses theoretical effects of minimum wages on employment and the wage distribution under a frictional setting. I review new developments in search theory and discuss the influence of minimum wages on wages and employment under each setting. Thereby, a major theoretical focus of...

"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...

"This paper examines the impact of minimum wage in a dominant firm model. It is shown that in a labor-intensive market, the introduction of a binding minimum wage creates an entry barrier in the short run and increases unemployment in the long run." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

"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...

"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EU Eastern Enlargement. The EU has agreed with the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe transitional periods for the free movement of...

"Of the typically cited agglomeration advantages labor market pooling receives strong empirical support - yet remains under-explored theoretically. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and...

"We forecast unemployment for the 176 German labour-market districts on a monthly basis. Because of their small size, strong spatial interdependencies exist between these regional units. To account for these as well as for the heterogeneity in the regional development over time, we apply...

"Dass die Chancen und Risiken auf dem Arbeitsmarkt ganz zentral von den vorhandenen Qualifikationen abhängen, ist seit langem bekannt. Ein wichtiger Indikator hierfür sind die qualifikationsspezifischen Arbeitslosenquoten, deren Aktualisierung mittlerweile jedoch erhebliche Probleme aufwirft....

"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...

"Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...