and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers’ unemployment is causal for offsprings’ employment …This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime … employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant …

firing costs and unemployment benefits are independent of redundancy pay, employment and welfare will rise with redundancy … shown that a fixed payment will lower wages, leave employment and welfare unaffected if there are no wage-dependent taxes …, no additional firing costs and if unemployment benefits are not altered by redundancy payments. If payroll taxes exceed …

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this … progressive taxes reduce profits. This induces firms to exit the market such that the positive employment effect can vanish in a … opportunities raise the likelihood of positive employment effects due to higher tax progressivity. …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low … employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …

aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …