, 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 …

This contribution empirically explores the drivers of labour market reform acceptance for the individual level in … Germany. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to … in the former German Democratic Republic drive individual reform preferences. Our empirical results support this notion …

replacement rate is lower than the current (post-reform) replacement rate in Germany. However, implementing the optimal … of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … macroeconomic effects of the German labor market reforms of 2005 and 2006 (Hartz Reforms). We find that the 2005-reform had large …

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 …

actually favors stabilization. In an empirical analysis for Germany, the paper adds support for the finding of significant … regional stabilization by fiscal flows. The results indicate that about 17 % of GDP variation across West Germany's states has … been removed by fiscal flows during the last two decades. Thus, in Germany where the fiscal federalism is criticised for …

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 …