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 …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …

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