Themenheft: Labour Economics

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Special Issue on Labour Economics: Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- Hysteresis in Unemployment Rates? A Comparison between Germany and the US / Hassler, Uwe / Wolters, Jürgen -- Wage Adjustment Competitiveness and Unemployment - East Germany after Unification / Smolny, Werner -- Oil and Unemployment in Germany / Löschel, Andreas / Oberndorfer, Ulrich -- Living Standards in an Aging Germany: The Benefits of Reforms and the Costs of Resistance / Borsch-Supan, Axel / Ludwig, Alexander -- Choosing from the Reform Menu Card - Individual Determinants of Labour Market Policy Preferences / Heinemann, Friedrich / Bischoff, Ivo / Hennighausen, Giessen / Hennighausen, Tanja -- Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market - An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company / Gerlach, Knut / Hubler, Olaf -- Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure? / Antonczyk, Dirk / Fitzenberger, Bernd / Leuschner, Ute -- Firm Heterogeneity and Wages under Different Bargaining Regimes: Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-Productivity Firms? / Guertzgen, Nicole -- Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates / Entorf, Horst -- The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market Performance / Möller, Joachim / Tubadji, Annie -- Spatial Implications of Minimum Wages / Buettner, Thiess / Ebertz, Alexander -- The Impact of Innovation on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises with Different Growth Rates / Zimmermann, Volker -- Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? / Bertschek, Irene / Meyer, Jenny -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews / Rotheli, Tobias F. / Hofmann, Michael / Henke, Klaus-Dirk / Schröder, Michael / Heinmann, André W. / Krieger, Tim / Enste, Dominik H. / Henke, Klaus-Dirk / Weyerstraß, Klaus