Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent …In Deutschland zahlen Arbeitgeber traditionell den gleichen Tariflohn für Gewerkschaftsmitglieder und -nichtmitglieder …

Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper …

same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this …

In Germany, many labour laws and regulations apply only in establishments above a critical size, and usually these …

In public discussion in Germany it is often argued that jobs are mainly created in small and medium-sized firms (i …

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …