This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

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 …

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

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on …