In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly … more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births …. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference between East and West Germany can be explained by economic factors …

commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution …

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

unchanged, and equalize within-city assortative matching geographical wage inequality in Germany would decrease significantly …-city assortative matching observed between 1985 and 2014 increased aggregate labor earnings in Germany by 2.1%, or 31.32 billion euros …

reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … West more productive than the East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages … based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …