employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-1990, the relative benefits derived from using the panel structure of the data and … find amount to having up to six times as many observations, and are shared almost equally between using the panel structure …

Family reunification was virtually the only way for non-EC-foreigners to immigrate to Germany after the recruitment … reunification is limited. In the paper, the reunification of foreign families whose head lives in Germany is considered using data … from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-1989. Family reunification is identified in two different ways. Whereas the …

harmonisation process related to European integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to … earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their …