This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

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...