Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …

for reform and its main principles. As results of programme evaluation studies post-reform have become available just now …

. The "Mini-Job" reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour … income below a certain threshold from taxes and employees' social security contributions. We carry out an ex-post evaluation …

evaluation concept capable of generating reliable empirical evidence by that date. The task is therefore to develop a ready …-to-implement concept for the evaluation of the full set of reforms in their entirety, as well as each instrument on its own, facing … essential guidelines for an ideal evaluation design, conceptual and practical difficulties that arise in the context of …

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …