In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

German considerations (such as the transition process in post-communist Eastern Germany) and sustained intervals of classic …

panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …