several tax reforms that were implemented in Germany between 2001 and 2008. Our baseline estimates indicate an overall ETI of …

Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is …

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

The unification of Germany is one of the most wrenching and dramatic transitions in economic history. A policy issue of …

We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non …-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account …

Arbeitsmarktpolitik vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen. Ergebnisse der bei flächendeckenden Arbeitsmarktreformen in Deutschland erstmals …

Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten … Legislation: A Road to More Employment? A key feature of the recent labor market reforms in Germany is liberalization of dismissal …