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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726098
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Evaluating the German "Mini-Jobʺ reform using a true natural experiment
Caliendo, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
. The Mini-Jobʺ reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304436
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889513
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904913
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The parental leave benefit reform in Germany : costs and labour market outcomes of moving towards the Scandinavian model
Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor);  … - 2006 - [Rev]
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003479933
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003916131
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Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" reform using a natural experiment
Caliendo, Marco; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 19/21, pp. 2475-2489
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746962
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"Marginal employment": stepping stone or dead end? : evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618455
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The parental leave benefit reform in Germany : costs and labour market outcomes of moving towards the Scandinavian model
Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor);  … - 2006
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003386577