and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques for estimation. We develop a … the posterior distributions of different treatment effects of interest. Our estimation results imply positive effects of … start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments …

participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

Estimation Pooled - Hausman-Taylor (CCEPHT, Serlenga and Shin, 2007) are applied to analyse the effects of the agreement variable …. Our estimation results indicate a positive and significant impact of EA on trade flows. However, there is an asymmetric …