Ludsteck, Johannes; Seth, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 5, pp. 635-644
Summary Arent and Nagl (2013) use the BA Employment panel 1998-2007 to identify effects of the German Hartz reform and find that it caused a considerable reduction of wages. Our replication study suggests that their clear and strong conclusions are based on implausible assumptions regarding the...