capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …

capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …