"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the inequality of earnings and income levels. In an extended version of the Roy-model we consider migration costs, which tend to grow less than proportional with the income level. As a...

"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...

"Die als Ein-Euro-Jobs bekannten Zusatzjobs haben im Rahmen des Sozialgesetzbuches II die Aufgabe, erwerbsfähige, bedürftige Personen, die anderenfalls keine Arbeit finden, wieder an den Arbeitsmarkt heranzuführen. Ferner dienen sie als ein Test auf Arbeitsbereitschaft ('Work-Test'), also zur...

"In dem Forschungsbericht werden die Datensätze der Bundesagentur für Arbeit vorgestellt, die für die mikroökonometrischen Untersuchungen zur Verfügung stehen. Es handelt sich insbesondere um die Bewerberangebotsdaten (BewA), um die Beschäftigtenhistorik (BeH) sowie um die integrierten...

"Arbeitsgelegenheiten in der Entgeltvariante stehen seit Einführung des SGB II im Jahre 2005 als ein Instrument zur Verfügung, mit dem die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit arbeitsloser Bezieher von ALG II erhöht werden soll. Im ersten Jahr wurden über 25.000 Hilfebedürftige durch dieses Instrument...

"Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...

"Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also effects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). I analyse whether during the undoubtedly increasing integration of markets the Czech border region close to the...

"In this paper we show that firm characteristics have an influence on the success of employment subsidies e.g. wage subsidies and in-work benefits, as they can strengthen positive effects or mitigate negative effects. We consider firm characteristics as post treatment variables, which are...

"In 2005 a major reform of the German means-tested unemployment benefit system came into force. The reform aimed at activating benefit recipients, e.g., by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job. This programme was implemented at a large scale. Participants receive their means-tested...

"The vocational qualification in Germany is crucial for a successful participation in the labour market. Persons without a vocational certification carry a clearly higher risk to become jobless and they have problems to gain a sustained foothold in the labour market. In contrast, at the upper...