analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a … large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and … across space, we find that photovoltaic installations created at least twice as many jobs in slack than in tight labor …

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as … build a two-region RBC model with labor market frictions, idiosyncratic consumption risk, and limited cross …

, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups …, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment …

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 …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue …