Based on social security data, this paper analyzes wage trends for full employed males by estimating (censored) quantile regressions as functions of age, cohort, education, and year. We test whether a parsimonious specification separating life cycle effects from macroeconomic effects can...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the structure of earnings in West Germany across skill groups and industries. Our analysis is based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel for the period 1984 to-1994. We estimate quantile regressions, both for the entire sample period and for...

Zur Vorbereitung des Jahresgutachtens 2020/2021 des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung wurde das IAB um seine Expertise zu den Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise auf Aus- und Weiterbildung und die Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungsstruktur sowie...

Am 16.11.2020 fand die Anhörung im Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales des Deutschen Bundestags zum "Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Beschäftigungssicherung infolge der COVID-19-Pandemie (Beschäftigungssicherungsgesetz - BeschSiG)" und zum Antrag "Neben der Sonderregelung für Kurzarbeit auch...

Das IAB äußert sich in dieser Stellungnahme zu den Anträgen der Bundestagsfraktion Die Linke: "Schutzfunktion der Arbeitslosenversicherung stärken" (Bundestagsdrucksache 18/7425) und der Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: "Arbeitslosenversicherung gerechter gestalten und Zugänge...

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility criteria were tightened and entitlement was abandoned...