We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control … people in Germany by public case managers. …

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

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many …Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre … components: (i) an integration of unemployment assistance and social assistance; (ii) a substantial reduction of the social …

, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … numerical model for Germany. The model combines a microsimulation module, which captures the labour-supply decisions of … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …