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 …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …

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