Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we …

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …

setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …

Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …