tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural … entrepreneurship. -- personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …

non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …

discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

We analyze the novel transactional card expenditure data for Germany and Austria provided by Fable Data. We describe … lower-frequency information from external data sources. We find very similar expenditure patterns in Germany and Austria. We …

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …