"Inhalt / Contents" -- "Guest Editorial" -- "Abhandlungen / Original Papers" -- "Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment - Evidence for German Sons" -- "Physical Activity of Adults: A Survey of Correlates, Determinants, and Effects" -- "Youth Unemployment in the OECD: The Role of...

Sanktionen in der Grundsicherung spielten vor dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts im November 2019 eine weitaus größere Rolle als derzeit. Im Fokus bisheriger Untersuchungen standen umgesetzte Sanktionen, das heißt tatsächlich erfolgte Leistungsminderungen. Ihnen geht ein die Sanktion...

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...

Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three different programs for East Germany during the transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple...

In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effects of benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For the unemployment duration, we estimate censored...