Using register data, we document that the average German labor market, defined by hires in combinations of 3-digit … relatively stable between 2012 and 2023. The labor market delineation strongly affects the measured level of concentration but …

dualized labor market and welfare state. The success of this export-centered model over the last decades has typically been … change is rather market driven than to be explained by institutional reforms. Employment growth was driven by service sector … dualisms in the labor market. Following a cyclical argument about political decision-making, we only saw limited re …

paper we show that the regulated market has an informational advantage over the liberalised market, as it can observe both … actual and historical prices in the liberalised market, as well as the aggregate supply and demand curves that determine them … utilised compared to homogeneous ones, reducing overall welfare but increasing the regulated market’s individual welfare. This …