Eingliederungszuschüsse gehören zu den wichtigsten Instrumenten der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Arbeitgeber können diese zeitlich befristeten Lohnkostenzuschüsse erhalten, wenn sie Arbeitsuchende mit Vermittlungshemmnissen einstellen. Für die Studie wurden zahlreiche Interviews mit...

Soziale Ungleichheit ist ein zentrales Thema im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs. Sie wird zu einem großen Teil über die Erwerbstätigkeit und Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt (re-)produziert - daher kommen dem Strukturwandel des Arbeitsmarktes und den Reformen der sozialen Sicherungssysteme große...

The paper empirically examines three possible reasons for the high and rising unemployment of low-skilled employees in Germany: (i) an upsurge in interindustry trade, (ii) a skill-biased technical change, and (iii) a failure of labour market adjustment. The empirical analyses indicate that an...

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany?s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence...

We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour tax cuts in an economy where wages are determined through firm-union bargaining at the sectoral level. In such a labour market regime, simulations for Germany show that labour...

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different volatility measures and four country groups. In...

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...

Empirical evidence from the psychology literature suggests that reactions towards health shocks depend strongly on the personality trait of locus of control, which is usually unobservable to the analyst. In this paper, the role of this discrete heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health...