This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the … and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into "stable" and "unstable" employment after the … find stable employment. For the period of September 1992 to November 1994, when the institutional structure for the …

" employment after the PWP. We find that these programs seem to have no special targeting focus on disadvantaged groups in the … labor market and that participants are, on average, worse off concerning their re-employment prospects in regular jobs than …

specific model for international tax burden comparisons. Our primary interest is in the employment effects the models predict … employment three years after the cut. But the employment effects differ considerably in magnitude, which follows immediately from …

In this paper we estimate the employment effects of a reduction in weekly normal hours in West German manufacturing on … groups. Given wages, the direct employment effect of a reduction in weekly normal hours is negligible for all three groups … reduction of working hours, the net employment effect becomes negative on average. Due to their relatively large wage elasticity …

reduction of the social assistance withdrawal rate and an earnings-related tax credit. The expected employment and fiscal … expenditures may be substantial, although the expected labour supply and employment effects of this reform are much smaller than is …. Furthermore, these employment gains come at the cost of a substantial expansion of public-works jobs. …