Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

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. …

the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession …

margins of exports empirically for the first time for Germany. Results turn out to be fully in line with the theoretical …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the … world market for goods. The paper demonstrates that exporters of high-quality goods tend to be more profitable. …