I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio …

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …

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 …

We use the expansion of the high-speed rail network in Germany as a natural experiment to examine the causal effect of … train schedules and the opening of high-speed rail stations with panel data on all workers in Germany, we show that a …

matched employer-employee data from Germany, we find that spatial frictions generate large misallocation of labor across firms …

comparative study of observed developments in the US, UK and Germany since the mid-seventies, complemented by an examination of …

Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …