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? … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential …

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …

unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of …-up subsidies in Germany, and are based on a novel data set of administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency that was …

This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in …

, especially in the high skill segment. Our results show that recent immigration to Germany, including refugees, has a moderate … estimated at +1.6%. Finally, we observe that productive capacities of immigrant workers are underutilized in Germany and a …