Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined … evidence that the large public sector in Germany in effect functions as an employer of last resort, absorbing some otherwise …

As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …

The aim of this paper is to illustrate for Germany the factors that may explain the U-shaped pattern of older men …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …

labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …

Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our … of employment outside temporary help work over a four-year period. Neither, however, do they suffer from future greater …

policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …