place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …

Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und die Arbeitsmarktprobleme in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt eine Analyse und Bewertung der Reform von …

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …

Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. As matching … influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in … restricted sample period for post-unification Germany, we oppose claims that the oil to macroeconomy relationship has weakened …

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. …

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …