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 …

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. …

search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany … areas (US, Germany and the G8) are found, which are coincident with the crisis and its contagion timeline. An array of due …

correcting for measurement error, wages appear to be very sticky. In the average quarter, the probability that an individual will …

for the smaller samples of sub-groups of the workforce, the general findings are robust to this measurement issue. Thus …