-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many …Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre … components: (i) an integration of unemployment assistance and social assistance; (ii) a substantial reduction of the social …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …

introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental …

which accounts for cohort effects in individual employment and unemployment and earnings over the lifecycle as well as the … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across …

which accounts for cohort effects in individual employment and unemployment and earnings over the lifecycle as well as the … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

which accounts for cohort effects in individual employment and unemployment and earnings over the lifecycle as well as the … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across …