This empirical study investigates the effect of the German disability law on employment dynamics, using data on all … employ at least two disabled persons or pay a penalty. Descriptive as well as multivariate analyses suggest that employment … similar situation above the threshold reduce employment in order to avoid the penalty. …

employees and more record shares of job growth and destruction which are lower than their share in employment. This implies that … economic policy measures which focus on certain size classes of firms cannot be justified by superior employment growth in …

suggest that employment growth is dampened my firms avoiding to exceed thresholds. In order to minimize these transaction …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …