This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …

century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth century for …

's Germany and - by identifying important shifts in home production technology towards more complementarity - on the evolution of …

policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …

Like most Western European countries, Germany stringently regulates dismissals and layoffs. Critics contend that this … Germany. We find little evidence that inventories help to buffer demand fluctuations in either country. Our findings suggest …

In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …