manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …