Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is …

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …