"This paper examines participation in labor market programs such as job subsidies, workfare, and training programs by lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms, expectations that non-employed parents responsible for...

"Cross-sectional studies show that in West Germany women with different levels of educational attainment participate differently in the labor market. In this paper, I examine one potential underlying mechanism: the re-entry of mothers in the labor market after a period of inactivity. I argue...

"This article deals with the role of caseworkers in Germany's Federal Employment Agency ('Bundesagentur für Arbeit') in the process of implementing administrative reforms. We argue that a successful outcome of reforms depends heavily on how caseworkers understand and interpret innovations. Our...

The beginning of the employment career is often associated with phases of unemployment. We argue that unemployment has different implications for different educational groups on future employment career depending on institutional settings in the UK and Germany. While search and matching models...

Despite ample evidence on intergenerational persistence of formal education as well as on the determinants of non-formal training, these issues have not yet been analysed jointly. The question remains whether people from low-qualified family backgrounds make up for their relatively sparse own...

The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span 19752004 to investigate individual lifetime unemployment (defined as the total length of all...

The basic concept of multiple imputation is straightforward and easy to understand, but the application to real data imposes many implementation problems. To define useful imputation models for a dataset that consists of categorical and of continuous variables with distributions that are...

The advent of the New Economic Geography has spawned a renewed interest in questions of agglomeration. The present work expands the research on the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth by connecting two strands of the empirical literature. A localization index and a cluster...

Dieser Beitrag begibt sich mittels multinomialer logistischer Regressionen auf die Suche nach Bestimmungsfaktoren für den Suchverlauf bei erfolgreichen Stellenbesetzungen. Hierzu werden drei Verlaufstypen unterschieden und auf Zusammenhänge insbesondere mit Merkmalen der Stelle und des...

Die Haushaltsstruktur ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für die materielle Lage von Familien. Die Armutsgefährdung und die Angewiesenheit auf Leistungen der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende von Alleinerziehenden und Paarhaushalten mit Kindern unterscheiden sich erheblich. In der Untersuchung...