Germany's labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the … particularly affected by the crisis. Although Germany's experience is in stark contrast to the United States, we identify and …

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than … market policy and social benefits. It can be shown that the institutional framework currently in place in Germany is …

approach regarding the introduction of additional minimum wages in Germany and more generous in-work benefits combined with an …

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

-protecting, earnings-related unemployment insurance, skills-oriented active labor market policies and strong dismissal protection so that … ones (banking and insurance), new high-skill sectors (IT and the creative economy) and growing areas of low-skill services …

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany. …

contributions and income taxes. This type of jobs tends to undermine tax and social insurance revenues and distorts the functioning … of the labour market since in can be shown that they displace regular employment covered by taxation and social insurance … support schemes. Regarding the regulation of the labour market in Germany, there is no need to re- or de-regulation fixed …