combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random … heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …

Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market … throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …

successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and … consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany’s trade partners. We check up on … frictions. Our results suggest that the disproportional growth of GDP (labour productivity) in comparison to consumption (wages …