We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …

. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the …

discuss how this evidence can be used to estimate what the absenteeism rate would be in Italy if employment protection were …