large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …

between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human …

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the …