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 …

Business Tax Reform of the year 2000 (GBTR 2000) as a natural experiment. Its effect on wages in the manufacturing sector is …

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 …

Germany, all demographic cells are almost entirely detached from the cycle. Women are less influenced by the cycle in their re-employment … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …. Heterogeneity in unemployment and transition rates diff er between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East …

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

This article revisits an analysis by Frondel, Ritter and Schmidt (2008) of Germany's Renewable Energy Act, which … Germany's support scheme subsidizes renewable energy technologies not based on their long-term market potential, but rather on … double those of onshore wind. The result is explosive costs with little to show for either environmental or employment …

indicators for the US and Germany, we demonstrate that our inflation sentiment indicators improve forecast accuracy in comparison …