Germany, gradually over time and across federal states. These law changes allow one to investigate the causal impact of years … effect running from schooling to citizenship in Germany. …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings …

legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal … system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany …

-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …

on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning … efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance and of continuous preparation of the material. …

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective …

experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control … treatments, we show that the mere fact of being observed by third parties cannot explain the efficiency-increasing effect of …

, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …