This paper investigates the performance of labour markets during the recent crisis for 28 industrialised countries, specifically the reaction of employment and unemployment indicators relative to output changes. We construct a composite indicator for output as well as labour market performance....

Öffentliche Arbeitsvermittlung versucht, arbeitslose Arbeitsuchende möglichst rasch in den Arbeitsprozess zu integrieren. Dieses Bemühen kann im Widerspruch zu qualitativen Zielsetzungen der Vermittlung stehen: der Vermittlung auf dauerhafte, möglichst gut entlohnte und den Qualifikationen...

Does the low wage sector serve as a stepping stone towards integration into better-paid jobs or at least towards integration of jobless people into employment? There is evidence for a "low-wage trap" and for a high risk of low-wage earners to get unemployed, but this may also be due to sorting...