estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use … programs ; employment effects ; local linear matching ; administrative data ; active labor market programs …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … of wage inequality in Germany. -- Wage inequality ; occupations ; tasks ; skill biased technical change ; polarization …

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 …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment …' skill level. -- labor demand ; heterogeneity ; age ; skill ; wage structure ; employment ; cohort effects ; unemployment …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. -- training program ; employment effects ; administrative data ; matching …

in both the U.S. and Germany which is consistent with a technology-driven polarization of the labor market, the patterns …This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth …

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that … exclusively driven by wage differences within and between different industries. Labor demand or firm wage policy related effects …

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …. -- evaluation ; active labor market programs ; dynamic non-linear panel data models ; MCMC …