Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women's employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …

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 …

matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment … with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …'Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

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 …

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

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …