normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than …

employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline in the first years after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts … conditions do matter, and the employment rate of some earlier cohorts collapsed when structural shocks hit the German labor …

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …

, dass mit einer größeren Lohnspreizung die Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit bei gegebenem Output, Kapitaleinsatz und …

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 … rates, but in the longerterm only modest effects remain due to higher wages. …