This paper contains a description and analysis of the labour market in East Germany and an econometric evaluation of some effects of German unification on the West German labour market. At the outset, recent developments of employment and unemployment in East Germany are summarized together with...

This paper attempts to evaluate economic effects of migration into Germany on the basis of a macroeconometric disequilibrium model. Germany has the advantage of having experience with migratory movements of guestworkers. There was a tremendous infiow of those workers in the sixties as well as an...

This paper gives a short overview of the unemployment problem in Germany during the last decade. In a disequilibrium macroeconomic framework there are strong linkages between spillovers of domestic demand on trade flows and labor demand. In the econometric part of the paper these linkages are...

This paper is concerned with the experience of the Federal Republic of Germany with migratory movements. It presents, firstly, quantitative magnitudes and describes some institutional regulations concerning the immigration and remigration of foreign workers, including some remarks on more recent...

Inhalt dieses Beitrags ist die Simulation einer alternativen Geldpolitik der Deutschen Bundesbank mit Hilfe eines makrookonometrischen Ungleichgewichtsmodells. Dazu wird nach einem kurzen Überblick über das Modell für den Zeitraum 1985 bis 1988 eine Geldmengenentwicklung unterstellt, die sich...

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skill-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....

It is often claimed that growing labor market imperfections and maladjustments can be blamed for the increase and persistence of unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany. This paper attempts to marshall the empirical importance of these factors. Higher structural unemployment seems to be...

The main purpose of this paper is at least twofold. Firstly, the paper gives a record of fiscal policy in the Federal Republic of Germany by describing various phases of its design during the past twenty years. This is done on the background of changing economic conditions and different monetary...

This paper deals with the importance of rationing for international trade flows. The analysis is based on a macroeconometric rationing model for the Federal Republic of Germany. Besides a theoretical treatment of various channels through which rationing occurs, an estimation of a rationing model...