Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …' social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany …

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …