hypotheses, we use household survey panel data for Germany eliciting the personal wealth composition in detail in 2002, 2007, and …

Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of … enormously in the last years in many (European) countries, this has not been the case in Germany. From the outside, therefore, it … may look as if Germany’s low youth unemployment rate is to be credited to the dual system. That observation, however, is …

Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …

in West Germany's districts. The results indicate that collection rates are set in response to the fiscal decisions of …