concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

negative correlation between perceiving to earn less than the reference group and SWB. …

The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the … Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers ́and childrenś occupational choices. We discuss policy …

a balanced panel dataset on German firms that covers 35 years (1971-2005) and about 1,500 firms per year. In contrast to … trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …

newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability … by applying "gsecond generation" panel cointegration techniques. A unique identification strategy for the selection of … sub-panels improves the robustness of panel cointegration tests and reveals that Laender finances are hardly sustainable. …

collected in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to longitudinal analyses, using linear fixed-effects models and fixed …

unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient … than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm …

-specifications, which are more pronounced for long-term works councilors. Moreover, we observe no wage premia in linear fixed-effects panel …