, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …

quits are important reasons for wage rigidities for high skilled labour. Compared to findings from the USA, in Germany …

, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly … current stage of transition subsidising labour might be more effective for creating jobs in East Germany than promoting R …

Using linked employer–employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage …

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 …