Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ‘institutional regimes’, we estimate the short …The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women's employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women's employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …

Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland ist angesichts der hohen Kosten, der Hinweise auf geringe oder gar fehlende … werden zum einen Handlungsoptionen für eine effizientere Ausgestaltung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland abgeleitet. Zum … bestehenden Instrumenten der Arbeitsmarktpolitik sowie aktuellen Reformvorschlägen. Dabei werden auch internationale Erfahrungen …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue … whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within …

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and …-Economic Panel for West Germany covering the period 1983 to 1992. The focus of the study is on the importance of "negative duration …