We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our …

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …