development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

In East Germany, active labour market policies (ALMPs) are used on a large scale to contain fast rising unemployment …

and social security records. We apply a matching estimator adapted for the case of multiple programmes. We find …

Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional … matching estimators are not robust. We address this problem with the bounding approach proposed by Rosenbaum (2002), where … to undermine the implications of the matching analysis. …

the approach retains its basic simplicity. The paper also outlines a matching estimator potentially suitable in that …

Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has … matching estimators. This representation allows the use of martingale limit theorems to derive the asymptotic distribution of … matching estimators. As an illustration of the applicability of the theory, we derive the asymptotic distribution of a matching …

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data …

bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German …