Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories …, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime … income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

taken into account. We extend the neoclassical labor supply model in two directions. First, we allow for endogenous wages … differentials of part-time jobs, the model with endogenous wages predicts lower part-time employment than the standard neoclassical …

(electricity and heating) in Germany. Using official expenditure data from 1993 to 2008, we estimate an expenditure elasticity for … electricity of 0.3988 and of 0.4055 for space heating. The own price elasticity for electricity is -0.4310 and -0.5008 in the case …

business profits. This suggests that municipality-level taxation in Germany is inconsistent with the inverse-elasticity rule … seminal inverse-elasticity rule. First, we estimate the tax elasticity of the two tax bases using event-study and generalized …

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …

support can be mustered without hurting equity too much. We also investigate the effects of Germany meeting its legal target …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …