, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the workforce participated in short-time work schemes at the trough of the … Germany is more encouraging as to the effectiveness of STW, pointing to rather moderate deadweight losses. We interpret this …

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

choice but to proceed relatively fast. Others, such as East Germany and Czechoslovakia, could have retained the centrally …

market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional …

lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …