estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For …

and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques for estimation. We develop a … the posterior distributions of different treatment effects of interest. Our estimation results imply positive effects of … start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

This paper provides new estimates of a timevarying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by … inflation rates is employed. Therefore, either the NAIRU concept is not applicable to Germany or, as it is our suggestion, one … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the …

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this …