Seit dem 16. August liegt der Abschlussbericht der Kommission „Moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt“ („Hartz-Kommission“) vor1. Die neue Bundesregierung arbeitet gegenwärtig an einer gesetzgeberischen Umsetzung der Vorschläge. Wie sind die Vorschläge im Bereich der...

Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...