periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … of wage inequality in Germany. -- Wage inequality ; occupations ; tasks ; skill biased technical change ; polarization …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …