Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential reason for the different structure of unemployment relates...

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...

Im Zusammenhang mit dem drängenden Problem der zunehmenden Jugendarbeitslosigkeit kommt dem Dualen System der Berufsausbildung besonderes Interesse zu. Empirische Studien zu dieser Institution sind rar. Ausgehend von einer Darstellung der zeitlichen Entwicklung und der aktuellen Situation des...