In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …

four major European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). As opposed to the benchmark rational …

differences between the Anglo-Saxon countries and Germany in terms of prevalence and extent of IR as well as in terms of the …

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …

This paper examines the consequences of using "real-time" data for business cycle analysis in Germany based on a novel …