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 …

" employment after the PWP. We find that these programs seem to have no special targeting focus on disadvantaged groups in the … unemployed people who do not join such a program. A possible explanation for this result is that PWP participants search less … intensively for a regular job while on such a program than unemployed non-participants. Thus, our results cast serious doubts on …

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled … of intensified international competition and skillbiased technological change on the relative employment and earnings … is rather low. The decline in the employment share of unskilled workers attributable to an inflexible earnings structure …

German Socio-Economic Panel. Although most unemployment spells end in employment within a few months, long-term unemployment … process: the hazard rate from unemployment into employment declines sharply after the first few months and stabilizes at a … relatively low level, while the experience of previous unemployment reduces an individual's future re-employment probability …

In this contribution employment effects of wage subsidies and a minimum wage are analyzed for Germany. Existing studies … for the construction sector and simulations of a statutory minimum wage unanimously point to employment losses of a … general minimum wage for Germany. The magnitude of the negative employment effects depends on the minimum wage level …