marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …

In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …

We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …

wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …