Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers? employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

patterns similar to those found in aggregated data for Germany. Also, smaller firms and firms that grow faster are more …

' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which … that are active in Germany. We decompose the volatility of firms into their reaction and their exposure to aggregate …

This study analyzes the effect of child care costs on the labor supply of mothers with preschool children in Germany … explained by the fact that child care costs are already heavily subsidized in Germany. …