and comprehensible information about the pension system and individual expected pension payments. This reform did not … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using …

In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of … the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the … curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to … educational outcome variance explained by predetermined circumstances beyond a student's control. The reform-induced increase in …

East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … some type of evasion strategy in eastern Germany, particularly since wages for skilled roofers declined towards the minimum …

Based on a rich panel of household data, we investigate the determinants of the use of consumer credit in Germany. We …

state ; immigration ; ethnic diversity ; Germany ; cluster-robust standard errors ; two-way clustering …

, are highly unpopular. This contribution looks into the role of intrinsic motivation as a driver for pension reform … acceptance. Theoretical reasoning suggests that this driver should be relevant: The choice among different pension reform options … (increasing pension age, increasing contributions, cutting pensions) can be analyzed within the framework of an optimal job …

-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a … pension levels and raising mandatory pension age. Finally the paper discusses further possible reform measures, including the … ; Financial Crisis ; Fiscal Sustainability Survey ; Germany …