"Publicly sponsored vocational training programs are important measures of active labor market policies in Germany. A crucial factor for their success is that unemployed are willing to participate in further training. This paper deals with individual determinants of willingness to participate,...

"Der Beitrag untersucht die homogenen und heterogenen Teilnahmeeffekte des Hamburger Kombilohnmodells. Hierfür werden neben dem Verfahren des Propensity Score Matching auch lineare Regressionen durchgeführt. Die so ermittelten Teilnahmeeffekte variieren nur geringfügig zwischen den beiden...

"This paper investigates the selectivity of vocational training courses on Germany's labor market. We consider the case of a special program ('IFlaS'), which provides vocational training for low-skilled unemployed. The program aims at alleviating the foreseeable shortage of skilled workers in...

"Using a fixed-effects panel-estimation of the years 2004 and 2005 of the IAB Establishment Panel, this article tries to answer the following question: Do the so-called One-Euro-Jobs have an effect on the growth rate of regular employment, covered by the social security system? The analysis...

"This paper investigates the selectivity of vocational training courses on Germany's labor market. We consider the case of a special program ('IFlaS'), which provides vocational training for low-skilled unemployed. The program aims at alleviating the foreseeable shortage of skilled workers in...

"Der Beitrag untersucht die homogenen und heterogenen Teilnahmeeffekte des Hamburger Kombilohnmodells. Hierfür werden neben dem Verfahren des Propensity Score Matching auch lineare Regressionen durchgeführt. Die so ermittelten Teilnahmeeffekte variieren nur geringfügig zwischen den beiden...

"Using a fixed-effects panel-estimation of the years 2004 and 2005 of the IAB Establishment Panel, this article tries to answer the following question: Do the so-called One-Euro-Jobs have an effect on the growth rate of regular employment, covered by the social security system? The analysis...

"This paper analyzes the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labor market in a specific factors two-sector model with heterogeneous labor (low-, medium-, and highly-skilled) and price- and wage-setting behavior. The low- and medium-skilled labor markets are...

"This paper examines equilibrium tax rates and provision levels of public goods in an international tax competition setting with imperfect labour markets. While earlier research mainly reexamined the result of underprovision of public consumption goods in the decentralised equilibrium, this...

"Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...