microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality … Germany - the reduction of unemployment effect is nearly 40% greater when the policies are implemented in conjunction than in …

Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …

heterogeneity in the sectors and industrial branches in Germany individuals are separated into sub-groups. The results of my …

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War … II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were … West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however …

major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …