This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Basis des Steuer-Transfer-Mikrosimulationsmodells STSM in Verbindung mit einem diskreten Arbeitsangebotsmodell nach van Soest (1995) der Frage nachgegangen, welche maximalen Arbeitsangebotseffekte von der Reform der geringfügigen Beschäftigung zu erwarten sind....

A number of contributions have found evidence for motherhood being a critical life event for women's employment careers. This study presents a detailed model for the du- ration of maternity leave in which young mothers can make a transition into a number of states related to employment and...

In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...