positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on …

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. …

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …