unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …

establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …

after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity … declined. We observe a large relative increase in transitions from employment to welfare. Immigrants ́responsiveness to the …

We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement … unemployment, and shifted to alternative pathways into retirement. The overall use of the retirement system declined by about 1 …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

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 …

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. …