roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …’ social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …