The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million …Seit ihrem Höhepunkt im Februar 2005 sank die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland innerhalb von drei Jahren von 5 …

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 shortrun employment effect of a revenue …

market reforms implemented in Germany between 2003 and 2005. I exploit regional variation in the intensity German counties … find that the increase in inequality is partly due to a direct monetary impact of the last Hartz reform, Hartz IV, on the …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …

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 …