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. …

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 …

Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper …

same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this …

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …

provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in Germany. We show that between 54 and 59 percent of all … employees in Germany have never been members of a trade union. Individuals' probability of never-membership is significantly …

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 …

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …