This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...

The impact of a job loss on partner's labour supply - often called the added worker effect - is a well-studied phenomenon. However, people might already adjust their labour supply when their partner is at risk of losing his/her job. Using Labour Force Survey (LFS) microdata, we quantify this...

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...

Wechselwirkungen zwischen Arbeitsmarkt und sozialer Sicherung berühren in vielfältiger Weise zentrale Themen der Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik und stehen vielfach im Brennpunkt öffentlicher Diskussionen - man denke beispielsweise an die Frühverrentung als arbeitsmarktpolitisches Instrument...