Germany are strongly correlated with general changes in disposable incomes. This means that, after introducing controls …, virtually every successive birth cohort in Germany and the United States had increasing disposable incomes, similar to general …. Thus, while economic growth benefits all birth cohorts in the United States and Germany, pre-1950 birth cohorts in France …

comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from …

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …