Trotz anhaltenden Beschäftigungswachstums geht die Zahl der Arbeitslosen nicht im gleichen Umfang zurück. In Niedersachsen, wie in Deutschland insgesamt, lassen sich in den letzten Jahren eine Verfestigung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit sowie längere Arbeitslosigkeitsdauern beobachten. Dieser...

Trotz anhaltenden Beschäftigungswachstums geht die Zahl der Arbeitslosen nicht im gleichen Umfang zurück. In Niedersachsen, wie in Deutschland insgesamt, lassen sich in den letzten Jahren eine Verfestigung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit sowie längere Arbeitslosigkeitsdauern beobachten. Dieser...

Die Frage nach der Entwicklung von Arbeitsmarktmobilität, Beschäftigungsstabilität und Beschäftigungssicherheit ist spätestens seit den frühen 1980er Jahren von zentralem Interesse für die Arbeitsmarktsoziologie. Vor diesem Hintergrund präsentiert der Beitrag langfristige Entwicklungen...

Zuwanderung aus den neuen EU-Mitgliedsländern hat in den letzten Jahren einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Fachkräftesicherung in Deutschland geleistet. So ist die Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten aus diesen Ländern zwischen Januar 2010 und Mai 2017 von 254.000 auf 1,14 Millionen...

Das Jahr 2015 war seit Aufzeichnung der Wanderungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes das Jahr mit der höchsten Zuwanderung von ausländischen Staatsangehörigen nach Deutschland, auch nach Abzug von Fortzügen. Waren EU-Staatsangehörige vor 2015 die größte Gruppe der Zuwanderer, sind es seit...

Um Schwankungen des Arbeitskräftebedarfs zu begegnen, unterbrechen Betriebe zum Teil in Zeiten geringer Auslastung Dienstverhältnisse, um anschließend bei verbesserter Auftragslage dieselben Arbeitskräfte wieder einzustellen ("temporärer Layoff"). Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht erstmals...

[Inhalt] 1 Beschäftigungsprojekte unter Legitimationsdruck. 2 Ziele und Arbeitsschritte der Evaluation. 3 Die St:WUK - Eine Beschäftigungsinitiative des Landes Steiermark. 4 Beschäftigung statt Arbeitslosigkeit und Arbeitsmarktbarrieren. 5 Arbeitsmarktpolitische Effekte - Integration und...

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie im Auftrag der Landesgeschäftsstelle des AMS Burgenland war es, Informationen darüber zu gewinnen, wie a) arbeitslose Personen 45+ durch das AMS Burgenland noch besser betreut und gefördert werden und b) welche Ansätze bei Unternehmen die Beschäftigung älterer...

This paper studies how firms' screening behavior and crowding out among applicants affect the optimal design of unemployment policies. In our model, firms face a pool of applicants and observe unemployment duration and a signal about productivity. Firms screen the applicants with the highest...

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp drop in the availability of these programs. Using administrative data...

This book is a collection of original works by authors from all over the world on aspects of unemployment and job issues, seen from various angles and based on their recent research. It sheds light on fresh ideas on unemployment, such as the intergenerational approach and unemployment...

Panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey are used to examine the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of spouses and adolescent children. Estimates from fixed effects models show that the mental health of women (but not men) declines following...

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...

Public sector jobs are created because governments opt to provide goods and services produced directly by public employees. Governments, however, may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels. However, economic research...

To many economists the public's support for the minimum wage (MW) institution is puzzling, since the MW is considered a "blunt instrument" for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in ability. In the first model, the government does not...

Zuwanderung aus den neuen EU-Mitgliedsländern hat in den letzten Jahren einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Fachkräftesicherung in Deutschland geleistet. So ist die Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten aus diesen Ländern zwischen Januar 2010 und Mai 2017 von 254.000 auf 1,14 Millionen...

Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty in order to prevent layoffs and stabilize employment. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession, for example. This paper shows that the effects of...

This paper investigates the distributional and efficiency consequences of an environmental tax reform, when the revenue from the green tax is recycled by varying labor tax rates. We build a general equilibrium model with imperfect heterogeneous labor markets, pollution consumption externalities,...

It has been noted that the search and matching model cannot account for the observed unemployment fluctuations. Gertler and Trigari (2009) show this weakness of the model disappears when wage stickiness is introduced to the model. Pissarides (2009) disagrees with this modification, arguing that...

To many economists the public's support for the minimum wage (MW) institution is puzzling, since the MW is considered a "blunt instrument" for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in ability. In the first model, the government does not...

Um Schwankungen des Arbeitskräftebedarfs zu begegnen, unterbrechen Betriebe zum Teil in Zeiten geringer Auslastung Dienstverhältnisse, um anschließend bei verbesserter Auftragslage dieselben Arbeitskräfte wieder einzustellen ("temporärer Layoff"). Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht erstmals...

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...

The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i.e. NUTS) classifications as they fail to adequately...

The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i.e. NUTS) classifications as they fail to adequately...

The EU’s largest economy, Germany, has managed to find an effective and unique combination of flexibility and rigidity in its labor market. Institutions that typically characterize rigid labor markets are effectively balanced by flexibility instruments. Important developments since 2000...

South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost of hiring young workers. We make use of anonymized tax administrative data from the 2012-2015 tax years to examine the effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms...

The paper asks whether trade can help to achieve the employment targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus is on Goal 8, which is to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all." The theoretical and empirical links...

We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment. We calibrate our model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector wage and employment policy on the unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the...