In this article we analyse the effects of economic up- and downturns on individual tenure in West Germany over the 1984 - 2005 period. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel we apply log-logistic and Weibull…
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation…
Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment…