This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within …

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and …-Economic Panel for West Germany covering the period 1983 to 1992. The focus of the study is on the importance of "negative duration …

between employment, unemployment and non-participation in the labour force at the individual level are derived from panel data …-state or 'equilibrium' unemployment rates for various groups of the labour force. It is shown that these differ greatly between …

We analyze guest-workers' expected duration of stay in Germany within an econometric model taking into account the …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their … effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the … and outcome equation. The latter differentiates between transitions into "stable" and "unstable" employment after the …