Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the …

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 …

on panel data for West Germany indicate that the legal change did have a negative effect on severance pay. -- panel data …

identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate …

annual tax base loss for Germany amounts to EUR 5.4 billion. Adding estimates of profit shifting by multinationals not … covered by the CbC data yields an overall estimate for profits shifted out of Germany to tax havens of EUR 19.1 billion per … year, corresponding to 4.3% of the profits reported by these firms in Germany. This implies a tax revenue loss due to …

union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed … estimation models, we investigate whether the effects vary by gender, age, birth year, and employment status. …

Social assistance to the poor is increasingly subject to compulsory work requirements in Germany. Municipalities have …