In a number of European economies youth unemployment has increased again to unexpected and unwanted levels. It has become one of the pressing labor market problems that many countries are currently facing. This special issue involves a collection of current research and new findings. The...

In Germany, the entry into the labor market for students in the nonacademic tracks of secondary schools may take multiple pathways. Students graduating from lower track secondary schools (LTSS) face major problems in school-towork transitions, prompting the provision of intensive career guidance...

Building on non-stationary search theory (Mortensen, 1977; Van den Berg, 1990), this article estimates the effects of UB on unemployment durations and future earnings using unique administrative data in Germany. We apply censored Box–Cox quantile regression. Our results imply that the length of...

Education and training are key to explain the current competitive strengths of national economies, and to secure future competitiveness. While in the past educational and training institutions were often seen as providers of necessary skills for national economies, this view has changed...

Der Klimawandel hat bereits spürbare Auswirkungen auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Besonders der Temperaturanstieg und die Zunahme von Hitzewellen betreffen Branchen wie das Baugewerbe und die Landwirtschaft. Auch andere Branchen wie Dienstleistungen, Logistik, Tourismus und das Verarbeitende...

Jede Periode in Arbeitslosigkeit führt für die betreffende Person zu einer erhöhten Wahrscheinlichkeit, später erneut arbeitslos zu werden oder es dauerhaft zu bleiben. Hierfür kann es verschiedene Gründe geben. In einer Studie von Biewen und Steffes (2008) wird analysiert, ob...

Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time, wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how is the growing use of performance pay schemes related to the increase in wage inequality?...