Während die Zielsetzung des Zweiten Buches des Sozialgesetzbuchs (SGB II) und insbesondere die Maßnahmen der Arbeitsmarktförderung von den Möglichkeiten und Bedarfen der einzelnen Per-son ausgehen, erfolgt die Feststellung der Hilfebedürftigkeit unter Berücksichtigung der...

Population aging in many developed countries has motivated some governments to provide wage subsidies to employers for hiring or retaining older workers. The subsidies are intended to compensate for the gap between the pay and productivity of older workers, which may discourage their hiring. A...

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

This paper investigates under which conditions firms use fixed-term contracts, subcontracted and freelance work. Using a probit model which accounts for unobserved heterogeneity, we find that positive changes in expected or actual turnover are associated with a higher probability of employing...