We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents …

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

heterogeneity in management practices across establishments in Germany, with small firms having lower scores than large firms on … productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … average management score is lower in Germany than in the US. Overall, our results point towards lower management quality being …

We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In … the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment … the 1960s. Germany's recovery started in the mid-2000s after the Hartz reforms, when inflow rates persistently decreased …

similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive, long-run administrative data for the years 1975 to 2010, we use a set of … reveal similarities between Germany and the U.S. in terms of some declining fortunes of the young. However, whereas in the U ….S. college educated workers have been affected, the results indicate that in Germany the medium-skilled and low-skilled have been …

; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …

In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to …. Using unique matched establishment-employee data from Germany, the authors find that when establishments offer special …