We analyze the work incentives and labor supply effects of the so-called mini- jobs reform (subsidies of social security contributions to people with low-earnings jobs) introduced in Germany in April 2003. The analysis is based on a structural labor supply model embedded in a detailed...

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP)....

Abstract: Die Autoren plädieren für eine Reform der Bildungsfinanzierung. Diese sollte nach ökonomischen Kriterien gestaltet werden, um über den Lebenszyklus optimierte Bildungsinvestitionen zu erreichen. Um dieses Ziel zu unterstützen, sollten einerseits die öffentlichen Investitionen in...