have a higher wage flexibility with respect to national unemployment. …

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 … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …

not be considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. …

dem Hintergrund der hohen und persistenten Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland in den jeweiligen Jahresgutachten des SVR einen … (GCEE). During the previous decades this topic has taken center stage due to the high and persistent unemployment in Germany …, for example, to the legislation of dismissal protection and the unemployment insurance system. The success of the GCEE …

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 …. We analyse the effect of these reforms on individual unemployment risks using large individual administrative data merged …

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous … in Germany on the basis of a CGE model using an input-output framework for all sectors of the economy. Our simulation …

us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …