be extended to allow migrants to move to regions that best reward their skills in terms of both wages and employment. The … extended framework predicts skilled workers to be disproportionately attracted to regions with higher mean wages and employment … rates as well as higher regional wage and employment inequalities. Estimates from a labour flow fixed effects model and a …

With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector …, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to … several reforms that resemble the range of approaches for employment promotion which can be found in other European countries …

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … competing exit states. Our results suggest that changes in the unemployment compensation system rather than local employment …

migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social … introduced in Germany which is similar in nature to the other social insurances, such as the health care or pension insurance …

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum … roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for …