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

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

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 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. …

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

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?. …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …In Deutschland zahlen Arbeitgeber traditionell den gleichen Tariflohn für Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und -nichtmitglieder …