of two establishments in western Germany and only one out of four establishments in eastern Germany were covered by …

same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employeremployee data from Germany to analyze this exporter …

This article revisits an analysis by Frondel, Ritter and Schmidt (2008) of Germany's Renewable Energy Act, which … Germany's support scheme subsidizes renewable energy technologies not based on their long-term market potential, but rather on …

This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is … mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic inequality. For Germany, little is known about actual patterns of … marriage formation along educational lines. Our empirical analysis for Germany shows that educational assortative mating has …

of expected pension receipt. Current pension policy in Germany runs counter to this insight, though, leading to even …