Seit 2005 steigt die Beschäftigung in der Landeshauptstadt Dresden. Der Beschäftigungsaufbau ist durch den Dienstleistungsbereich getrieben. Damit einher geht eine verstärkte Beschäftigung von (hoch)qualifizierten Arbeitnehmern. Im Gegensatz zu Sachsen oder Ostdeutschland weist Dresden eine...

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

Beschäftigungsfördernde Maßnahmen kommen in Betracht, wenn bei Arbeitslosigkeit die Eingliederung in reguläre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse aufgrund der regionalen Arbeitsmarktlage oder individueller Eigenschaften des Arbeitslosen nicht möglich ist. Für viele Maßnahmen öffentlich...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of work-sharing as a tool against unemployment, within a simple model where unemployment is induced by a binding minimum wage. To be effective, policies such as working time reduction or early retirement require that the workforce be homogeneous enough: The...

This working paper was written by Wenlang Zhang (Hong Kong Monetary Authority) and Gaofeng Han (Hong Kong Monetary Authority).Labour markets in China have experienced remarkable changes in the past decade. In this paper we use above-scale industrial firm-level data of 2001-2008 to study how...

This article shows that the Mincer equations, augmented with variables of firm size and corrected by selectivity bias, yield results that are consistent with the theories of human capital and labor segmentation. Greater firm endowments of human capital and physical capital are related to greater...

In 2002-2005, Latvian labor market has witnessed dramatic changes related both to unprecedented economic growth and to a massive outflow of labor force after EU enlargement in May 2004. This study, based on micro-level analysis of Latvian Labor Force surveys 2002-2005, provides a detailed...

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

The concept of a labor market, responding to familiar underpinnings of supply and demand, completely colors thought on the relationship between employment, wages, and inflation, according to James K. Galbraith. However, he asserts, wages are determined not by such market forces, but by what he...

Starting from a non-cognitivist position, it is asked whether it makes sense (i) to claim a right to work as a basic human right which should be written into the constitution, (ii) to decree a general reduction of working time, and (iii) to grant a basic income to everybody without any...