bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …

-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …

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 …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded … smaller in eastern than in western Germany. The wage differential is shown to decline over time as the newly founded firms …Unter Verwendung eines kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten- Datensatzes für Deutschland analysiert dieser Beitrag die …

empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher wages for workers …-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes präsentieren wir erste empirische Ergebnisse für Deutschland zu diesem Zusammenhang. Wir stellen fest, dass innerhalb …

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 …

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

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely "good luck". …