Selected articles were published in English in the series IAB Labour Market Research Topics. Each issue dealt with one topic. The series was published at irregular intervals between 1993 and 2004. The individual issues can be downloaded free-of-charge.
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 2004
- Unemployment compensation systems. A cross-country comparison
(Werner, Heinz; Winkler, Werner)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 2003
- Green Card and Green Card unemployment in Germany
(Franziska Schreyer) - The health status of the unemployed in German unemployment statistics
(Hollederer, Alfons) - Working time and the volume of work in Germany. The IAB concept of measurement
(Bach, Hans-Uwe; Koch, Susanne) - The integration of immigrants into the labour markets of the EU
(Werner, Heinz) - Active labour market policy and gender mainstreaming in Germany. Gender-specific aspects of participation and destination in selected instruments of the Federal Employment Service
(Müller, Petra; Kurtz, Beate)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 2002
- The aggregate national supply of job openings and firms’ procedures for filling Positions
(Magvas, Emil; Spitznagel, Eugen) - Labour market policy in Germany
(Blien, Uwe; Walwei, Ulrich; Werner, Heinz) - Labour market effects of employment protection
(Walwei, Ulrich) - He who seeks shall find ... or perhaps not? Analysis of firms' searches for qualified personnel, using data from the IAB establishment panel 2000
(Kölling, Arnd)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 2001
- Job placement regimes in Europe. Trends and impacts of changes
(Konle-Seidl, Regina; Walwei, Ulrich) - Work requirements in transformation, competence for the future. A critical look at the consequences of current positions
(Plath, Hans-Eberhard) - Lessons we can learn from other countries
(Walwei, Ulrich; Werner, Heinz; König, Ingeborg) - From guests to permanent stayers? From the german "Guestworker" programmes of the sixties to the current "Green Card" initiative for IT specialists
(Werner, Heinz)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 2000
- The development of European labour markets
(Blien, Uwe; Litzel, Nicole; Möller, Joachim) - Future of labour - future of women? Employment opportunities of women in Western Germany according to activities and qualification levels until 2010
(Engelbrech, Gerhard; Jungkunst, Maria) - Eastward enlargement of the European Union. A wave of immigration?
(Hönekopp, Elmar; Werner, Heinz) - The hidden labour force in the United Kingdom. A contribution to the quantification of underemployment in international comparisons
(Fuchs, Johann; Schmidt, Detlef) - Qualification and employment opportunities
(Rauch, Angela; Reinberg, Alexander)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 1999
- Productivity differences between Western and Eastern German Establishments
(Bellmann, Lutz; Brussig, Martin) - Controlling and evaluation of employment promotion and the employment services in Germany
(Brinkmann, Christian) - To move or not to move. Migration of labour in the European Union
(Tassinopoulos, Alexandros; Werner, Heinz) - The change in employment forms. Empirical results and first explanatory approaches
(Hoffmann, Edeltraud; Walwei, Ulrich) - Countries with successful employment policy. What is behind their success?
(Werner, Heinz)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 1998
- The labour market situation of EU and of Third Country Nationals in the European Union
(Kiehl, Melanie; Werner, Heinz) - Job placement in Germany. Developments before and after deregulation
(Walwei, Ulrich) - The bridging allowance as an instrument of labour market policy: a provisional appraisal
(Wießner, Frank) - Labour market trends and active labour market policy in the Eastern German transformation process 1990-1997
(Bach, Hans-Uwe) - Total (e)quality Management. Paradigmatic shift in personnel management
(Engelbrech, Gerhard) - Working hours and wishes concerning working hours among women in Western and Eastern Germany. Results of an empirical study from 1995
(Beckmann, Petra) - Employment growth determinants in new firms in Eastern Germany. Based on a combination of IAB establishment database and IAB establishment panel
(Brixy, Udo; Kohaut, Susanne) - Labour market trends in the United Staates. Lessons we can learn
(Werner, Heinz)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 1997
- Patterns of enterprise flexibility. IAB establishment panel results, Western Germany, 1993-95
(Bellmann, Lutz; Düll, Herbert; Kühl, Jürgen; Lahner, Manfred; Lehmann, Udo) - Labour migration to Germany from central and Eastern Europe. Old and new trends
(Hönekopp, Elmar) - Flexibility of employment relationships. Possibilities and limits
(Walwei, Ulrich) - Conceptual problems in the understatement of long-term unemployment
(Karr, Werner) - The IAB establishment panel with an exemplary analysis of employment expectations
(Bellmann, Lutz)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 1996
- Wage differentiation and long-term unemployment. An international comparison
(Bellmann, Lutz) - Temporary migration of foreign workers. Illustrated with special regard to east-west migrations
(Werner, Heinz) - Placement as a public responsibility and as a private service. An international comparative perspective of the reorganization of placement systems
(Walwei, Ulrich) - More part-time work as a cure for unemployment? Results of an international comparison
(Walwei, Ulrich; Werner, Heinz)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 1995
- Determinants of wages in the German service and manufacturing sectors. An empirical analysis based on the IAB establishment panel
(Bellmann, Lutz; Kohaut, Susanne) - The European Monetary Union. Possible consequences for employment and earnings
(Rhein, Thomas) - IAB long-term labour market projections and policy simulation with the SYSIFO macroeconometric model. Concept and application
(Barth, Alfons) - Economic integration and migration. The European case
(Werner, Heinz) - Long-term labour force projections for Germany. The concept of the potential labour force
(Fuchs, Johann) - Gainful employment and the inter-generational contract
(Kühlewind, Gerhard)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 1994
- Social and occupational integration of immigrants of German origin in Germany
(Koller, Barbara) - Human capital as a location factor. Arguments for the education policy discussion from a labour market policy standpoint
(Buttler, Friedrich; Tessaring, Manfred) - The employment contract. Cooperation requires stability
(Buttler, Friedrich; Walwei, Ulrich) - The integration of foreign workers into the labour market. France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
(Werner, Heinz) - Monopoly or coexistence. An international comparison of job placement
(Walwei, Ulrich) - Manpower requirement by levels of qualification in West Germany until 2010. Implications of the 1989 IAB/prognos projection for the qualification structure of jobs
(Tessaring, Manfred)
IAB Labour Market Research Topics 1993
- Long-term labour market projections. Methods and results for the Federal Republic of Germany
(Kühlewind, Gerhard) - Promoting employment instead of financing unemployment. Advocating an investive employment and labour policy in the new German states
(Bogai, Dieter; Buttler, Friedrich; Emmerich, Knut; Klauder, Wolfgang; Koller, Martin; Kühlewind, Gerhard; Möller, Ulrich) - Employment and social dimensions of the single European market
(Walwei, Ulrich; Werner, Heinz)