for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences … that the stereotype of the "malingering bureaucrat" seems to be an exaggeration, at least for Germany …

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 …

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

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …

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

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 …

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