Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and …-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in … Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in …

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

This paper re-visits the state of decentralised banking in Germany, Spain and the UK. The cross-country comparison we … conducted has identified Germany as having the most decentralised banking system, followed by Spain and the UK, as expected. The … never been as important in business lending in the UK and Spain as they are in Germany. Though large commercial banks …