formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …

agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the city-size wage gap. After 15 years of work experience in Munich the cumulative …

industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international … firm growth explains some recent empirical regularities on firm and labor market dynamics. Fitting the model to capture key … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …

industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international … firm growth explains some recent empirical regularities on firm and labor market dynamics. Fitting the model to capture key … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …

identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate … competition. Pass-through of the VAT reduction was higher in product groups with a large number of competing products. We …

On 1 July 2020, value added tax (VAT) rates were reduced in Germany to fight the economic consequences of the Corona … Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate a nearly full pass-through of the VAT rate reduction on prices. On average …

This paper analyzes an important shock to local labor demand in the financial services sector: firm relocation to … sector explains this persistence, rather than direct productivity effects or agglomeration …