processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period …

, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the workforce participated in short-time work schemes at the trough of the … Germany is more encouraging as to the effectiveness of STW, pointing to rather moderate deadweight losses. We interpret this …

Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than … market policy and social benefits. It can be shown that the institutional framework currently in place in Germany is …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … die Frage, inwiefern die Reformen in der Arbeitsmarkt-, Steuer- und Transfer-, Bildungs- und Betreuungspolitik der letzten … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland …

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor … structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs …