Marginal employment, so-called Minijobs, represent a significant part of the dependent employment in Germany. In 20121 and 2016 the RWI conducted a survey and interviewed marginally employed workers and employers with marginally employed workers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The results of the...

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers....

We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...

Eingliederungszuschüsse gehören zu den wichtigsten Instrumenten der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Arbeitgeber können diese zeitlich befristeten Lohnkostenzuschüsse erhalten, wenn sie Arbeitsuchende mit Vermittlungshemmnissen einstellen. Für die Studie wurden zahlreiche Interviews mit...