Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …

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

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

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 …

Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …