. In our empirical application we demonstrate that moderately large birth cohorts seem to experience lower employment rates …

effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family … flexible strategy to address selection issues in a segmented labour market. Our analysis is based on panel data, allowing us to … receive lower wages than native women in the same labor market segment, and that this is mainly associated with their …

moderate actual public transfer payment dependence of migrants to Germany with the perception of migrants dependence on public …This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Microzensus with a … particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to …

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 … analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained …

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The …

. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to … individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …

In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), cross-sectional wage regression results from 1997 … and panel results from 1984-1997 are presented. It is shown that the wage premium attributed to using a computer at work …