service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the “White Cohort … exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military …

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between –0.28 to –0.46, once we control for …

capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to human capital of …

Australia, Germany and the United States. Our results indicate that in Germany and the United States wealth differentials are …

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be … analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained …

Using a matched employer-employee panel dataset for Germany, we analyze the external effects of education on individual … wages. Following the basic framework of Moretti (2004), we allow spillover effects to occur both within a specific firm and …

This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost … some evidence that high-productivity employers support minimum wages. We further show that minimum wage support is higher … in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived …

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …