Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I describe the incidence, attributes, and outcomes of continuous training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is concentrated among the more highly educated, and in the...

Rüdiger Soltwedel (et al.): Regulierungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt der Bundesrepublik. Kieler Studien (Band 233), Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, herausgegeben von Horst Siebert. Verlag J. C. B. Mohr, Tübingen 1990. 267 Seiten, 66 DM (broschiert), 89 DM (Leinen)

The German economy has been outperforming other member countries of the European Union during the recent Great Recession and the still ongoing European debt crisis. What are the determinants of this outcome? This paper sets out to empirically analyze the trade and technology specialization and...