in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … gibt, untersuchen wir, ob dies auch in dem unterschiedlichen institutionellen Umfeld in Deutschland der Fall ist, wo statt …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is …

In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …

We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …