against welfare benefit recipients in Germany and its changes since the introduction of the Social Code II in the year 2005 … receipt. The analysis presents results for men and women in East and West Germany separately. Moreover, we distinguish between … that until the year 2011 was granted to people who exhausted their unemployment insurance benefit within the previous two …

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …

Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland seit den siebziger Jahren. Es wird …The analysis is about the compulsory German unemployment insurance system (GUIS). It is known that GUIS did nothing to … prevent the continuous rise of the rate of unemployment since the 1970s. The empirical literature about GUIS indicates that …