outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty …

-time and part-time employment of different skill groups of women in the UK and West Germany. The analysis is based on large …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … of wage inequality in Germany. -- Wage inequality ; occupations ; tasks ; skill biased technical change ; polarization …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment …