Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however fulltime employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer–employee data set for Germany, we …

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

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 a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

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