In dieser Stellungnahme äußert sich das IAB zu einem Antrag der Fraktion der Piraten des Landtags von Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Aussetzung der Sanktionen im ALG-II-Bezug (Drucksache 16/4162). Die Fraktion der Piraten fordert eine Aussetzung der Sanktionen im ALG-II-Bezug, weil ihrer Ansicht nach...

This paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for East Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. It concentrates on exit from unemployment into employment. Estimation results of a discrete-time hazard rate model imply that moderate cuts in the...

This study compares the duration of new job matches in the east and west German labour market that formed between the start of the German Economic, Monetary and Social Union in July 1990 and December 2000. The study relies on job duration data drawn from the German Socio-economic Panel. It shows...

Socialist societies often emphasized the abolition of traditional social classes. To achieve this objective, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to these patterns after the demise of socialist rule in...

In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income differential, employment rates, and migrations stocks as...