: distorted employment decisions, increased productivity, and higher exit rates. Our empirical analysis, using a novel dataset and …% points higher annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment … after 10 years. Additionally, an alternative policy of productivity investment subsidies proved costly and less effective in …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated … firms using initial labor productivity to indicate firms' competitiveness. Our results highlight that firms with higher … baseline productivity are more likely to be privatized, yield higher sales prices, are more often acquired by West German …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

(Raumordnungsregionen) in Germany based on the second wave of the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank in …. Although the paper is particularly focused on Germany, the approach proposed is applicable to surveys with a similar data …