of two establishments in western Germany and only one out of four establishments in eastern Germany were covered by …

. The Mini-Jobʺ reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour …

2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. -- Variance …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper …

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

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 …