car. Using panel data on new-car registrations in Germany, Europe's largest car market, the present paper addresses this …

ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany. …

substantial minimum wage in the main construction industry of Germany. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual … wage growth rate for East Germany but did not have a significant impact on the West German equivalent. The estimated effect …

statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …

share of regional variation in ambulatory care use in Germany can be attributed to demand factors and to supply factors … characteristics. Our results contrast with previous results for other countries, and they suggest that institutional rules in Germany … Patientenmigration um zu untersuchen, zu welchem Anteil regionale Variationen in der ambulanten Versorgung in Deutschland über Nachfrage …

providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential treatment given to private health insurance (PHI … problem in the outpatient sector, in 2015 Germany introduced a reform that was aimed at providing SHI holders with … outpatient treatments in Germany and assessed the reform's impact on this issue. We found a sizeable difference in waiting times …

countries. We compare the institutional frame, in particular labor-market characteristics and family law, in Germany and Japan …-earner) family system until the second half of the 20th century. Now we can observe that social changes that happened in Germany … fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …

There is a symmetrical debate in two Euro area core countries: in France about the restrictive fiscal policy of Germany …, leading to a huge external surplus, in Germany about the insufficient compliance with fiscal rules and the lack of structural …, that Germany's industry is not more integrated in international value chains than that of France or Italy. We then look at …