German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

Im Rahmen der Diskussion zur Lösung des deutschen Beschäftigungsproblems wird als potentieller Lösungsweg die Umverteilung des bestehenden Bestandes an Arbeit gefordert. Erst kürzlich wurde wieder die Verringerung von Überstunden durch die Bundesanstalt für Arbeit und im Rahmen der...

In der Regierungskoalition streitet man sich derzeit darüber, ob gesetzliche Mindestlöhne eingeführt und das Entsendegesetz auf weitere Branchen ausgeweitet werden sollten. Welchen Einfluss hat die intensivere internationale Arbeitsteilung auf den Arbeitsmarkt? Welche Wirkungen haben...

Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the...