"Jeder zehnte Jugendliche in Deutschland bezieht zumindest zeitweise Leistungen der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende (Arbeitslosengeld II). Der schulische Bildungsabschluss kann für diese jungen Hilfeempfänger eine wichtige Ressource zum Ausstieg aus der Sozialstaatsabhängigkeit darstellen,...

"Jeder zehnte Jugendliche in Deutschland bezieht zumindest zeitweise Leistungen der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende (Arbeitslosengeld II). Der schulische Bildungsabschluss kann für diese jungen Hilfeempfänger eine wichtige Ressource zum Ausstieg aus der Sozialstaatsabhängigkeit darstellen,...

"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

"Kombilöhne sind staatliche Transferzahlungen an Arbeitnehmer, die an die Aufnahme einer abhängigen, sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung unterhalb einer bestimmten Lohnhöhe gebunden sind. Ziel ist u.a. die dauerhafte Reintegration wettbewerbsschwacher Arbeitsloser in...

"Linking data from different sources can be used to compensate for the weaknesses characteristic for the single sources and therefore significantly increase the potential for analyses. This requires that linking data implies no consequences that cancel out the advantages. Considering this...

"Linking data from different sources can be used to compensate for the weaknesses characteristic for the single sources and therefore significantly increase the potential for analyses. This requires that linking data implies no consequences that cancel out the advantages. Considering this...

"Linking data from different sources can be used to compensate for the weaknesses characteristic for the single sources and therefore significantly increase the potential for analyses. This requires that linking data implies no consequences that cancel out the advantages. Considering this...

"By financially supplementing low wages, in-work benefits are an instrument of active labor market policy to encourage labor market integration of low skilled and long-term unemployed persons. The hypothesis of this paper is that the financial benefit from the state, even though increasing the...

"To compare different missing data techniques, in this paper I use a survey where participants were among other things asked permission for combining the survey with administrative data (record linkage). For those who refuse their permission I set their survey answers to missing, creating...

Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the Euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...