The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the …

This paper discusses the reasons for the dismal labor market performance of Germany over the last three decades along … play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …

The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … the explanatory variables. Building on a cointeg ration model of the employment rate in West Germany, I find only weak …

received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …

Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …