address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment … public pension system. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, the fiscal consequences of the 6.4 year increase in age 65 …

decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …

We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the …

return migrants while explicitly differentiating between self-employment as either own account work or entrepreneurship …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …

joint return migration and saving decisions that accounts for uncertainty in future employment and income and estimate this …

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the … purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may … substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration …

In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects … unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an individual's employment and earnings history. The model also captures the … employment and yields a bigger fiscal saving than a cut operationalized as a reduction in the replacement ratio. Welfare analysis …