We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

provisions on worker flows. In contrast to the predictions of the theory, our results indicate that there are no statistically …

Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we … these reforms. We try both nonparametric and fully-parametric estimation methods and identify the cases in which the …