firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both …-employer collective bargaining clearly dominates in Germany. Econometric analyses show that more or less the same set of variables play a …

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …