Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

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

exact contribution of deununionization is a matter of debate, perhaps no more so than in Germany, our case study. The … union representation. Using linked employer-employee data, our estimation strategy hinges upon the identification of … Germany more generally. …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the …

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

-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 …