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

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 …

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and Britain. That said, comparatively … in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

. The aim was to collect comparable data across European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria and … double-comparative design which looks at two immigrant groups (Turks and Moroccans) and a comparison group of natives from …, Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien, Österreich und Schweden), welche sich in Bezug auf Regelungen im Bereich der Integration sowie …

Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test … recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find …