The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...

Seit einigen Jahren wird an einer neuen Spielverordnung für die Unterhaltungsautomatenwirtschaft gearbeitet. Der politische Willensbildungsprozess zog sich bis Ende 2005 hin. Letzte Änderungen wurden Mitte Oktober verfügt. Besonders problematisch stellt sich für die Branche das unmittelbare...

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...