military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and days of employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Consistent estimates of …

educated. We analyse the returns to education in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom, countries which differ … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … UK, and the lowest for Sweden. A wage decrease due to time spent in unemployment results in a decline in the hourly wages …

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 … double those of onshore wind. The result is explosive costs with little to show for either environmental or employment …

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 …