Publications of the Research Unit Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper presents new evidence on the collective bargaining wage effect in western and eastern Germany. The novel feature of our analysis is that we use a…

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Seit zwei Jahren stehen der Wissenschaft mit der IEB und anderen Prozessdaten des IAB umfangreiche Individualdaten mit höheren Beobachtungszahlen und einer genauen Abbildung der zeitlichen Abläufe zur…

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used…

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In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this…

In this paper the effects of social assistance reform proposals are discussed for the case of Germany using a computable general equilibrium model which incorporates a discrete choice model of labour supply.…