As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …

We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll … taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less …, which predicts an ambiguous effect on wages: firing costs are expected to increase wages, because they increase the …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical … business start-up costs. We use three highly comparable micro datasets (SHARE, ELSA and HRS) providing harmonized data on …

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

In October 1999 the unemployment rate of people with severe disabilities in Germany was more than double that of the … Government announced that through this reform it had successfully reduced the number of unemployed by 25% representing around 45 …,000 individuals. However, an evaluation of the impact of this policy reform on labour market outcomes for the severely disabled …