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

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 …

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 …

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 …

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …

using administrative data from Germany and find that highly productive firms indeed sort into the most productive locations …. In our main application, we quantify the role of firm sorting for wage differences between East and West Germany, which …