We study a set of hypothetical reforms of child benefits in Germany, using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model augmented with endogenous labour supply and take-up choices (IAB-MSM). We distinguish between a reform of the universal non-means-tested child benefit, a reform of the...

Mit dem Zweiten Gesetz zu Änderungen im Bereich der geringfügigen Beschäftigung plant die Bundesregierung, die im Koalitionsvertrag hierzu getroffenen Vereinbarungen umzusetzen. So soll im Zuge der Anpassung des Mindestlohns auf 12 Euro pro Stunde die Entgeltgrenze für Minijobs von derzeit...

In its coalition agreement, the German government proposes a reorganisation of the rules of earned income to be considered as a means test of basic income. In doing so, it takes up a frequently voiced criticism of the design of the basic income support for job-seekers under Book II of the Social...

This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...

We use the recent introduction of tuition fees at public universities in seven of the sixteen German states to identify the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study differs from previous research in two important ways....

The Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) is a new administrative longitudinal microdata set representative of recipients of Germany's main welfare programme, the Unemployment Benefit II (UB II, Arbeitslosengeld II). The data set contains detailed longitudinal information on...

The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...

The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...

Im Rahmen der öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Arbeit und Soziales des Deutschen Bundestags am 4. Mai 2020 gab das IAB seine Stellungnahme ab zum Antrag "Arbeitsförderung und Beratungsqualität in den Jobcentern gesetzlich verbessern" der Abgeordneten Beate Müller-Gemmeke, Sven...