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 …

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 …

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 …

quantify the aggregate and distributional effects of spatial frictions that hinder worker mobility across regions in Germany … East and West Germany, especially due to the limited ability of workers to obtain job offers from more distant regions …. Despite the large real wage gap between East and West of Germany, removing the spatial frictions leads, in equilibrium, to …

for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity …

We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany …

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 …

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