with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment … wage ; Germany ; capital-labour substitution ; labour-labour substitution ; scale effect …

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …’ social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …