This paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for East Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. It concentrates on exit from unemployment into employment. Estimation results of a discrete-time hazard rate model imply that moderate cuts in the...

This study compares the duration of new job matches in the east and west German labour market that formed between the start of the German Economic, Monetary and Social Union in July 1990 and December 2000. The study relies on job duration data drawn from the German Socio-economic Panel. It shows...

Untersucht wird die individuelle Reallohnentwicklung von Ost- und Westdeutschen für den Zeitraum 1990/91 bis 1995/96 auf der Grundlage von Daten aus dem Sozioökonomischen Panel. Die Parameter werden mittels Medianregression geschätzt. Theorien des Humankapitals und der beruflichen Mobilität...

Mit der Einführung des Sozialgesetzbuches (SGB) II wurde das Einstiegsgeld (§ 29 SGB II) geschaffen. Durch dieses Instrument können arbeitslose erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige bei der Aufnahme einer sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung oder selbständigen Tätigkeit zum Vollerwerb...

This paper studies individual log real wage change of east and west Germans over the period 1990/91 to 1995/96 using data from the German Socio-economic Panel. Parameters are estimated by median regression. Human capital theory and job mobility theories have implications for wage changes that...

"This paper estimates for a sample of means-tested unemployment benefit recipients the effects of their participation in short-term training programmes in Germany. We apply propensity score matching and rely on a large sample of treated and controls from administrative data, which in contrast to...

"This paper studies individual log real wage change of east and west Germans over the period 1990/91 to 1995/96 using data from the German Socio-economic Panel. Parameters are estimated by median regression. Human capital theory and job mobility theories have implications for wage changes that...

"Mit der Einführung des Sozialgesetzbuches (SGB) II wurde das Einstiegsgeld (§ 29 SGB II) geschaffen. Durch dieses Instrument können arbeitslose erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige bei der Aufnahme einer sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung oder selbständigen Tätigkeit zum Vollerwerb...

"In 2005 a major reform of the German means-tested unemployment benefit system came into force. The reform aimed at activating benefit recipients, e.g., by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job. This programme was implemented at a large scale. Participants receive their means-tested...

"This paper estimates for a sample of means-tested unemployment benefit recipients the effects of their participation in short-term training programmes in Germany. We apply propensity score matching and rely on a large sample of treated and controls from administrative data, which in contrast to...