than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …

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 …

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …

In the 2000s, a major educational reform in Germany reduced the academic high school duration by one year while keeping …

reform in Germany reduced the length of academic high school while simultaneously increasing the instruction hours in the … students in Germany, we find that this reform decreased enrollment rates. Moreover, students are more likely to delay their …