This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

welfare state. We address this deficiency by studying the drivers of charitable giving in Germany, a country with a highly … contributions. Our results suggest no significant differences between donors in the US and Germany with respect to income and price …

This contribution empirically explores the drivers of labour market reform acceptance for the individual level in … Germany. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to … in the former German Democratic Republic drive individual reform preferences. Our empirical results support this notion …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … replacement rate is lower than the current (post-reform) replacement rate in Germany. However, implementing the optimal … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of … changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis …

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Au?erdem wird eine Verkürzung der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit nach der Reform …In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the …