across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

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 …

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany … Germany. …

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …

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. …

novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …