western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of …

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely `good luck'. …

guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of exporters' foreign customers, the policy is supposed to enable funding of …