Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at …

. Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, is a case in point. Theoretical models of multiple …

This study uses newly available enterprise level data for firms from manufacturing industries in Germany to test for …

goods traded and various numbers of countries traded with from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

I investigate the incentive effects of disability pensions on the labor supply decision of the elderly in Germany. In …