This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...

Knapp fünf Millionen Erwerbstätige haben ihren Beruf im Jahr 2012 hauptsächlich oder gelegentlich zu Hause ausgeübt. Das entspricht zwölf Prozent aller Erwerbstätigen. Davon waren 2,7 Millionen abhängig beschäftigt - acht Prozent aller Arbeitnehmer. Vor allem hoch qualifizierte...

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...

Das DIW Berlin hat im Herbst 2013 eine Studie über Mindestlöhne vorgelegt, die auf Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) für das Jahr 2011 beruhte. Inzwischen liegen Daten für 2012 vor. Im Jahr 2012 erhielten 5,2 Millionen Arbeitnehmer einen Bruttostundenlohn von weniger als 8,50 Euro...

In the fall of 2013, DIW Berlin presented a study on minimum wages which was based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study for 2011. The data for 2012 have since become available. As expected, in terms of structures for employees with gross hourly earnings of less than 8.50 euros, i.e.,...