consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany’s trade partners. We check up on …) are only partially driven by the reforms. However, we do not find that the reforms contribute to Germany’s trade surplus …

, 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 …

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 … influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

Germany. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to …

We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany … of unemployed jobseekers in Germany and was specifically made available for our purposes from administrative data …. Consistent support for an employment effect of hiring subsidies can only be found for women in East Germany. Concerning other …