exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … Germany more generally. …

In the debate on in-work benefits in Germany it is often overlooked that such subsidies may only be effective if basic …

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …

countries – Australia, Britain, Germany and the United States – and estimate measures of permanent income inequality that are … inequality have grown in Germany and the US, while post-government income inequality has grown in the US; (2) comparing levels of … annual post-government income inequality across countries, the ranking was the US, Australia, Britain, Germany; (3) comparing …

representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …