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 …

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

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