The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …

place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor. …

-time jobs). The most common use of these models is the simulation of tax-transfer reforms. The simulation is usually interpreted … as a comparative statics exercise, i.e. the comparison of different equilibria induced by different policy regimes. The … simulation procedure, however, typically keeps fixed the estimated alternative-specific constants. In this note we argue that …

It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low …

administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …

West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non …

assumptions which are consistent with economic theory, e.g. log-normally distributed consumption preferences, the Bayesian method …