This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … evidence that the large public sector in Germany in effect functions as an employer of last resort, absorbing some otherwise …

for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity … gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

Previous research highlights persistent differences in national brand market shares across regions, driven by … which long-term vertical contracts can explain the observed geographic dispersion and persistence of national brand … decompose the variance in brand shares into Brand * Retailer and Brand * Market effects. Results show that 50% of the variance …

suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …

advertising effects for a brand and substitution effects for authentic products, additionally the effects linger for some years …

enables a study of the drivers of the heterogeneity. This study casts managerial insights on effective brand protection and …

. Recent studies sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons focus only on brand prices and ignore substitution to …