In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on …

Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage … introduction, the distributional literature for Germany has focusedon hourly wages and earnings or relied on ex-ante simulations …

contributions (SSC) in Germany. Following Alvaredo et al. (2016) we exploit kinks in the budget set generated by a drop in the … reforms. Applying the approach to administrative data for West Germany facilitates a comprehensive incidence analysis between …

minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated …

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …