"This paper deals with the distribution of individual and combined organizational measures in German firms in the period 1999-2001. Based on the data of the IAB establishment panel of 2001, representative findings concerning firms of all industries and establishment sizes are presented. The...

"This paper deals with the distribution of individual and combined organizational measures in German firms in the period 1999-2001. Based on the data of the IAB establishment panel of 2001, representative findings concerning firms of all industries and establishment sizes are presented. The...

"Economic power and competiveness of a region depend to a great extent on the qualification of employees and on the demographic structure and the development of the population, especially because of demographic change and skilled worker shortage in future. This paper analyses the qualification...

"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...

"This paper analyzes the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labor market in a specific factors two-sector model with heterogeneous labor (low-, medium-, and highly-skilled) and price- and wage-setting behavior. The low- and medium-skilled labor markets are...

"The internationally coordinated IAB research project ReLOC - Research on Locational and Organisational Change - investigates the impact of direct investments of German firms in the Czech Republic on the labor markets in both countries. The analysis focuses on the effects of these cross-border...