Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … Germany lead to better earnings prospects compared to degrees obtained abroad for persons with migration background …. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …

observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …

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 …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the …

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …

The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and … school types. Overall, the variation in test scores can be explained much better by the observable characteristics in Germany …

: entrepreneurial self-selection via voluntary liquidation and external selection based on insolvency regulation. Distinguishing between … and West Germany, I find distinct education and size effects and a higher share of bankruptcy-related liquidations in East … Germany. These results are argued to reflect different industry structures, capital and labor market conditions in both parts …

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …