This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil … standard vs. non-standard contracts. Whereas internal flexibility via shorter working time was a dominant mode of adjustment …

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

teams to score in the last minute - including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more … national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries … dynamic labor demand function for the years 2000-2009 accounting for the degree of working time flexibility and the presence … hoarding, we also look at the determinants of subsidized labor hoarding through short-time work. The structural characteristics …

Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a … with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no …

-match component of wage variation is small and stable over time. Decomposing changes in mean wages between different education groups …

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved …