Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary …

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …

quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

) The informal sector works as an "unemployment," but not a "welfare buffer" in the event of negative economic shocks …