differentials of part-time jobs, the model with endogenous wages predicts lower part-time employment than the standard neoclassical …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous …, revenues and hence profits will change. We quantify the employment effects of an economy-wide increase in weekly normal hours … in Germany on the basis of a CGE model using an input-output framework for all sectors of the economy. Our simulation …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for … the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heterogeneity is assessed by estimating ex … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years …

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 …

estimation. …