Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the U.S., the answer is...

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

Am 3. Oktober 2015 wurde der 25. Jahrestag der deutschen Wiedervereinigung gefeiert. Das Ende der Teilung eröffnete große Chancen und neue Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten. Heute zeigen sich enorme Fortschritte, die bei der Verbesserung der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Lebensbedingungen erreicht...