size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of …

and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …

well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …

In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977 …