start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

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 …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the welfare use of Turkish immigrants and natives in Germany. The authors ask …