-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and … Germany and Japan. …

preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but … oldest reactors. In Germany, political support for the Greens increased significantly, whereas in Switzerland and the UK …

traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

this conflict. In 2007, Germany put into effect a new parental leave benefit (Elterngeld). The related reform increased the … duration in Germany. We draw on representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 2002 through …

employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and …

In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … rates are much higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany, absolute levels of structural state dependence however are …

music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …

reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became …