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 …

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

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 …

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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 …

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 …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …