Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and Britain. That said, comparatively … in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …

, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover …

Germany which allows us to control for unobserved population heterogeneity and potential selectivity bias arising from an …-worker system we use information on an immigrant's expected duration of stay in Germany to distinguish between temporary and … of stay. We find that years of schooling in Germany have a strong positive effect on earnings, that earnings …

We analyze guest-workers' expected duration of stay in Germany within an econometric model taking into account the …