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 …

quits are important reasons for wage rigidities for high skilled labour. Compared to findings from the USA, in Germany …

der Abfallwirtschaft zum 01.01.2010. Die Evaluation setzt sich aus einem Branchenbild sowie einer kausalen Wirkungsanalyse … Resultate der Wirkungsanalyse mit Hilfe verschiedener Kontrollgruppenansätze deuten darauf hin, dass die Einführung des …

vergleichsweise hohen Lohn anstreben. Angesichts der theoretisch unklaren Ergebnisse plädiert die Arbeit für eine Reform des FTV …This paper examines critically the system of industry-level wage bargaining in Germany. More specifically, it shows … that the importance of industry-level wage bargaining declines in Germany and that one major reason for this development is …

allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform … considerably. Differences in the reform spillover effects between foreign countries are mainly due to differences in …

Arbeitsangebotsmodell nach van Soest (1995) der Frage nachgegangen, welche maximalen Arbeitsangebotseffekte von der Reform der geringfügigen … Beschäftigung der Status quo nach der aktuellen Reform aufgezeigt. Im dritten Kapitel findet sich eine theoretische Analyse der … präsentiert. Zunächst wird der unmittelbar von der Reform betroffene Personenkreis auf der Basis des Sozioökonomischen Panels …

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

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

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 …