<p><p>We evaluate the German apprenticeship system, which combines on-the-job training with classroom teaching, by modelling individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and wages over the lifecycle. Our data is drawn from...</p></p>

In this paper we design a search-matching models similar to that can both explain the formation of couples and select the equilibrium on the curve of optimal contracts. We study identification from cross sections. The model is non parametrically estimated using the SIPP data.

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are aected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the eect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear...