western Germany over the period 1990-97. Key words: Unemployment, wage formation, spatial analysis, local monopsony, Germany …

western Germany over the period 1990-97. …

participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … Germany would have occurred without the Hartz reforms, but later and less intensively. We finally discuss the possible …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …