In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are …

retirement behavior as low-skilled Germans. The results are consistent with low-skilled workers in Germany being frozen in a …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …