This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...

Time-diary data from four countries suggest that differences in market time between the unemployed and employed represent additional leisure and personal maintenance rather than increased household production. U.S. data for 2003-2006 show that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas...

Diese Arbeit besteht aus theoretischen und empirischen Beiträgen zur Such- und Matchingliteratur, mit Schwerpunkt auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Das erste Kapitel beschreibt das Such- und Matchingmodell des Arbeitsmarktes sowie sein empirisches Gegenstück, den Flussansatz. Das zweite Kapitel...