The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … of identical firms. This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less …

meltdown unleashed. In this paper, it is argued that what happened was a case of malpractice by hundreds of economists in banks … mathematics in economics, it is argued that the main object of economists' efforts should be economic illness rather than economic …

public. This state of affairs makes clear the need for a major reorientation of focus in the research economists undertake …, as well as for the establishment of an ethical code that would ask economists to understand and communicate the …

top research journals from 1960-2010. The goal is to investigate the general research foci of economists over the last …