This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children’s later consumption of alcohol - which is frequently found to be of positive sign - exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...

This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...

Mit der zum 1. April 2003 in Kraft getretenen Reform geringfügiger Beschäftigungsverhältnisse - sog. Minijobs - im Rahmen der Hartz-Gesetze sind vielfältige arbeitsmarktpolitische Ziele verbunden. Die erste empirische Evidenz zur Wirksamkeit der Minijob-Reform nach einem Jahr zeigt, dass,...

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...