Internships are an important and often mandatory part of academic education. They offer valuable insights into the labor market but can also expose students to negative aspects of the working world, such as gender pay disparities. Our paper provides first evidence of a gender pay gap in...

Der vorliegende Bericht beschreibt die Inhalte der Studie "Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf den Bezug von Sozialleistungen", die im Rahmen des gesetzlichen Evaluationsauftrags der Mindestlohnkommission an das IAB vergeben wurde. In der Studie wird untersucht, wie sich der...

In many advanced welfare states, welfare recipients often receive benefits for long periods. This persistence of welfare receipt can be caused by two distinct mechanisms: genuine or spurious state dependence. Knowledge of which of the two mechanisms drives the observed state dependence is...

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...

Germany implemented comprehensive labour market reforms between 2003 and 2005 that affected the labour market careers of the unemployed in many ways. Based on rich administrative individual data, this note investigates the distribution of unemployment durations by various exit states before and...

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...

In many advanced welfare states, welfare recipients often receive benefits for long periods. This persistence of welfare receipt can be caused by two distinct mechanisms: genuine or spurious state dependence. Knowledge of which of the two mechanisms drives the observed state dependence is...

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...

Der vorliegende Bericht beschreibt die Inhalte der Studie "Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf den Bezug von Sozialleistungen", die im Rahmen des gesetzlichen Evaluationsauftrags der Mindestlohnkommission an das IAB vergeben wurde. In der Studie wird untersucht, wie sich der...