whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty …

We analyze guest-workers' expected duration of stay in Germany within an econometric model taking into account the …

inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …