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 representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

-employment in Germany. For the estimation I apply a microsimulation model which is based on the tax-benefit model STSM and on …

puzzle. The analysis is based on a large, representative panel data set for Germany, which provides information on asset …

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 …