This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

specific model for international tax burden comparisons. Our primary interest is in the employment effects the models predict … employment three years after the cut. But the employment effects differ considerably in magnitude, which follows immediately from …

"Mikrozensus" of 1991, 1993 and 1995, there is evidence that the probability of the search for self-employment depends, among other … to self-employment was higher for the unemployed than for the employed and decreasing by the time. In West Germany it was …

This study investigates the determinants of self-employment and the effects of continuous vocational training among new … important after entering self-employment. …

The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this … positive effect on employment growth that is typically most pronounced in the second year after application. The effect seems …

a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is …

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric … during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job …