effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to … and re-employment, estimation of a nonlinear regression model reveals additional aspects of cyclical sensitivity. In …

We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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 …

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio … is shown that the structure of wages has remained remarkably stable over this time period, and that the German structure … dispersion. In calculating inter-industry wage differentials as deviations from a hypothetical employment-share weighted mean, we …

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family … receive lower wages than native women in the same labor market segment, and that this is mainly associated with their …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999/2000. These tax reforms … analyse the effect of the tax cuts on transitions into and out of self-employment and on the rate of self-employment. We apply … indicate that the decrease in tax rates did not have a significant effect on the self-employment decision. -- taxation …