The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators …

employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random …

qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …, dass mit einer größeren Lohnspreizung die Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit bei gegebenem Output, Kapitaleinsatz und …

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …