Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …