close scrutiny. Using monthly data from 1973:01 to 2009:12 from the USA, UK, Germany, France and Japan, this paper as a …

countries. We compare the institutional frame, in particular labor-market characteristics and family law, in Germany and Japan … fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. -- Out-of-wedlock childbearing ; fertility ; family law … ; Germany ; Japan …

six countries (US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Japan). We evaluate the models‘ abilities to match empirical second … parametrizations, sticky information performs better in France while sticky prices dominate in the UK and Germany. Sticky prices match … betrachtet dazu die Inflationsdynamiken in sechs verschiedenen Ländern (USA, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Kanada und …

In Germany we observe a decline in regular employment and an increase in atypical forms of employment. Especially …

portray the labour market outcomes of second generation immigrants in Germany. Special attention is attributed to observable …

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …

distinct focus on Germany, the three most important and still largely open questions in the design and implementation of …