an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

complementarity between aggregate regional education and job turnover. On the level of regional industries in Germany we find strong …

The paper sheds light on the impact of local human capital endowments on individual wages in Western Germany. Using …

The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … capital endowments; in fact, the effective stock on human capital in East Germany is lower than in West Germany when … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

highly qualified workers in Germany we find that an increase in the regional share of highly qualified workers by one …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …