examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced …

This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany … considerably, which led to a sharp increase in the number of start-ups by the unemployed. The empirical analysis is based on a … 1995 and could be observed at least one year after their foundation in 4 regions of East and 11 regions of West Germany. In …

interview data). The empirical analysis shows that firms receiving assistance perform better in terms of employment growth over …

-term program effects on the survival chances and the average annual employment growth rates of assisted firms. In order to estimate … effects of public assistance on the survival chances and the average annual employment growth rates of young German firms. …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the … basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on …