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 …

based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality …This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …

mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …

Several recent papers have shown the relevance of collective models for the empirical investigation of household labor …

, enacting regulation to ensure household consumer protection and security of supply. …

this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to …

of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …