Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run …

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue … rates, but in the longerterm only modest effects remain due to higher wages. …

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 € per hour. This study evaluates the …