This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a com-parison of three groups of workers defined as…
This paper investigates the development of basic cognitive, motor and noncog-nitive abilities from infancy to adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions and home…
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…