I analyze the effects of further training subsidies for low-skilled employees on individual labor market outcomes in Germany for the period from 2007 to 2012. Using detailed administrative data, I exploit cross-regional variation in the conditional policy styles of local employment agencies and...

Cross-sectional studies show that in West Germany women with different levels of educational attainment participate differently in the labor market. In this paper, I examine one potential underlying mechanism: the re-entry of mothers in the labor market after a period of inactivity. I argue that...

Öffentlich geförderte Weiterbildungen für Arbeitslose sind ein wichtiges Instrument der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Neben formalen Voraussetzungen ist auch die Bereitschaft der potenziell Geförderten wichtig, weil sie die individuelle Teilnahmeentscheidung und den erfolgreichen Abschluss...

Compulsory military service is still a prominent feature of young people's careers in many countries. We use the abolition of compulsory military and civil service for males in 2011 in Germany as a natural experiment to identify effects of institutionalized career disruptions on life...

We analyze the impact of the GermanWeGebAU programs, which are government-subsidized training measures for employed workers over 45 years old. We apply a dynamic matching approach similar to Crépon et al. (2009) and exploit novel information contained in rich German registry data. We focus on...

Die Studie analysiert, welche Auswirkungen Mutterschaft auf die Gehälter und Löhne von Frauen hat. Anhand eines russischen Datensatzes wird mit Hilfe einer Abgleichungsmethode versucht, mögliche Selektionseffekte zu berechnen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Mütter einen moderaten Nachteil...

How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy question. Our paper provides newcomprehensive evidence on howa home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We...

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...

We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps in Germany and we provide first evidence for the...

In Germany, the labour force is ageing rapidly. At the same time, age heterogeneity within companies is rising. The literature on diversity argues that heterogeneity can have a positive as well as a detrimental effect on team outputs. Our paper sheds light on the impact of age diversity on the...