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 …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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

This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … hypothesis is contrasted with Rosen’s theory of equalising differences where security and wages are substitutes. The empirical … insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …

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 …

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …