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

This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products … simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and insurance is introduced via less risky … insurance if shocks are observable. Depending on insurance design, there is also evidence for persistence of this effect even if …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for …

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study … ambiguous reactions. An empirical analysis for Germany shows that minimum wages would affect total labor supply only weakly. Yet …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …