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'. …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …