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 …

novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …

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

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

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 …