I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France …. Estimation results show that while the presence of children and marital status are related to the choice to work part time in …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …

The paper examines the role of the vertical structure of the public sector for economic growth in Germany in a long …

interpret the estimation results for start-ups in knowledge intensive sectors in a reliable way. The remaining firms serve as a …

appear most affected, and that the effect in East Germany is somewhat larger. We investigate different market share proxies …