unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations … significant difference in the estimation of treatment effects, compared to specifications that include detailed labor market …

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

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

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany?s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …

into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …

income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany (SOEP) we show that … joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates by marital status, has a strong and highly significant impact on the …