This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...

This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers' job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...

In dieser Stellungnahme äußert sich das IAB zu den Anträgen der Bundestagsfraktion Die Linke: "Gute Arbeit und eine sanktionsfreie Mindestsicherung statt Hartz IV" (Bundestagsdrucksache 18/3549) und "Sanktionen bei Hartz IV und Leistungseinschränkungen bei der Sozialhilfe abschaffen"...

This paper investigates whether the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment varies over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the period 1985-2012 and an estimation framework based on the timing-of-events model, we estimate in-treatment and post-treatment effects...