In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of …

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 …

in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within …

We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship …

consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany’s trade partners. We check up on … frictions. Our results suggest that the disproportional growth of GDP (labour productivity) in comparison to consumption (wages …) are only partially driven by the reforms. However, we do not find that the reforms contribute to Germany’s trade surplus …

mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … employment services was reorganized at once, making an econometric evaluation difficult, only a small part of services has been … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …

influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. As matching …