Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

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 share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to … development in Germany is a large occupational heterogeneity, which is true for both current working conditions and trajectories … analyses the role of different types of non-standard employment across occupations in Germany, explaining variation between …

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer–employee data set for Germany, we …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals …

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly …