German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts … tend to mitigate the labour supply response to the reform proposal. While some labour supply indicators react quite …

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … proposals to reform social welfare in the recent German policy debate. We analyse a specific reform proposal with the following … effects of this welfare reform proposal are simulated on the basis of an econometrically estimated partialequilibrium labour …

This paper analyses the effects of a social assistance reform in Germany. In contrast to studies which are based on … simulate a variety of reform scenarios. The main contribution is that we are able to identify general equilibrium effects of a … reform on wages and unemployment. The simulation results show that general equilibrium wage reactions tend to mitigate labour …

, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …