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 …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages. …

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 …

Income and Consumption Survey (EVS) carried out in Germany. In this model the equivalence scales are identified by virtue of …

duration in West Germany using censored quantile regressions. We analyze unemployment periods of more than 91,000 observations … from the years 1981 to 1997 drawn from the IAB employment subsample. The latter is an administrative data set that is … reflecting the (un-)employment history of an individual such as the length of tenure, recall to the same employer in the past …

German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The IEBS belongs to a …