"The discussion about a reform of the promotion of junior academic staff is currently being fostered not least with regard to the attractiveness of the 'academic location of Germany' and the perception of a 'brain drain' of people with doctorates moving abroad. Against this background it is...

"The discussion about a reform of the promotion of junior academic staff is currently being fostered not least with regard to the attractiveness of the 'academic location of Germany' and the perception of a 'brain drain' of people with doctorates moving abroad. Against this background it is...

"Researchers analyzing wages with the German IAB employment sample are confronted with a censoring problem: The data comes from the social security accounts. Therefore the wages are only given up to the contribution limit of the social security (A documentation of the data set is found in...

Die Magdeburger Alternative plädiert für eine Befreiung der Arbeitgeber von den gesamten Sozialversicherungsbeiträgen, welche die Arbeitskosten unmittelbar senkt. Um Mitnahmeeffekte auf Seiten der Arbeitgeber zu vermeiden, werden von Arbeitslosengeld-II-Empfängern neu aufgenommene...

"Researchers in Germany have nowadays access to confidential micro data compiled from official statistics in a way that could not have been dreamt of just a few years ago. This paper describes the new institutions that grant data access - most importantly the research data centers located inside...

"Almost twenty years after German reunification there are still huge income disparities between western and eastern regions in Germany. The main purpose of the paper is to show how social transfer payments reduce these inter-regional disparities. In a first step we examine inequalities in the...

Der vorliegende Task Force-Band beschäftigt sich mit drei aktuellen gesellschafts- und wirtschaftspolitischen Themen aus Ostasien: Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik in Japan vor dem Hintergrund einer alternden Gesellschaft; private Altersvorsorge in Singapur; und Sozialstandards in der...