Seit der amerikanische Einzelhandelsgigant Wal-Mart durch die Übernahme der Wertkauf-Filialen, Interspar- und Asdamärkte auf dem europäischen Markt Fuß gefasst hat, herrscht Unruhe innerhalb der Branche. Fast alle großen Handelsketten Europas wurden bereits als Akquisitionsobjekte mit...

Seit der amerikanische Einzelhandelsgigant Wal-Mart durch die Übernahme der Wertkauf-Filialen, Interspar- und Asdamärkte auf dem europäischen Markt Fuß gefasst hat, herrscht Unruhe innerhalb der Branche. Fast alle großen Handelsketten Europas wurden bereits als Akquisitionsobjekte mit...

Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances and choices of spouses in a couple should be treated. By omitting information relevant to the spouse in IOp estimations, the implicit assumption was full responsibility for the...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...