Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women?s employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …

techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment, regular …Marginal Employment, i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining … employment and earnings. In addition to average treatment effects, we calculate dynamic and cumulative treatment effects …

-Modelle existieren auch in Deutschland schon seit längerem und wurden im Zuge der jüngsten Arbeitsmarktreformen ausgeweitet. Diese haben … reichen, haben die weiterführende Reform des Niedriglohnsektors in Deutschland zum Ziel. In diesem Beitrag werden die …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

security contributions to people with low-earnings jobs) introduced in Germany in April 2003. The analysis is based on a …-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our simulation results show that the likely employment effects of the mini-jobs reform will be small. The … to increase employment of people with low earnings capacity. …

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. … non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and …

and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing … an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal …