Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

Seit Beginn der siebziger Jahre gibt es in Deutschland, wie in den meisten anderen OECD-Staaten eine hohe Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Arbeitsmarktpolitik, den verschiedenen Formen der Bekämpfung von Arbeitslosigkeit, mit dem Problem der Ungleichheit bei Löhnen...

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...