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

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second sanction of the same type within one year implies a complete benefit … Germany. We estimate separate models for people living alone and people living with their family, as sanctioned welfare …

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …

change that took place in Austria in 2000. In September 2000, an insurance fund that refunded firms for the costs of their …

principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South …

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 …

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 …