Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

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 …

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

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

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 …