car. Using panel data on new-car registrations in Germany, Europe's largest car market, the present paper addresses this …

ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany. …

even when strong competition prevails on electricity markets. As our estimations for Germany¿s power sector show, these …

share of regional variation in ambulatory care use in Germany can be attributed to demand factors and to supply factors … characteristics. Our results contrast with previous results for other countries, and they suggest that institutional rules in Germany … Patientenmigration um zu untersuchen, zu welchem Anteil regionale Variationen in der ambulanten Versorgung in Deutschland über Nachfrage …

providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential treatment given to private health insurance (PHI … problem in the outpatient sector, in 2015 Germany introduced a reform that was aimed at providing SHI holders with … outpatient treatments in Germany and assessed the reform's impact on this issue. We found a sizeable difference in waiting times …

countries. We compare the institutional frame, in particular labor-market characteristics and family law, in Germany and Japan …-earner) family system until the second half of the 20th century. Now we can observe that social changes that happened in Germany … fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …

statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …

substantial minimum wage in the main construction industry of Germany. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual … wage growth rate for East Germany but did not have a significant impact on the West German equivalent. The estimated effect …