-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …

Pro Jahr verlassen 0,8 Prozent der Bevölkerung Deutschland, das sind etwa 650 000 Personen. Das Medienecho auf diese …

criteria to measuring inequality of opportunity in Germany. We illustrate our ex-post inequality of opportunity approach based …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …

In contrast to the vast body of data on immigration to Germany, there is almost no scientifically valid data available … on emigration flows from Germany and the factors motivating people to emigrate. In particular, there is an almost total … of departure for the pilot project "Life outside Germany" which attempted to follow Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP …

The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to analyze start-ups by foreigners in Germany …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly …

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …