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

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 …

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments …

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

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings …

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