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 …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a …

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 …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. …