and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques for estimation. We develop a … the posterior distributions of different treatment effects of interest. Our estimation results imply positive effects of … start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments …

participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show …