considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous … in Germany on the basis of a CGE model using an input-output framework for all sectors of the economy. Our simulation …

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. …

With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector …, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …. We analyse the effect of these reforms on individual unemployment risks using large individual administrative data merged …

not be considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. …

There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …

Deutschland geschätzten Bildungsrenditen mit den für die anderen Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union berechneten …