size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of …

and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …

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 … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …

non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …-paid service jobs, as non-wage labour costs are minimised. In France, fixed-term contracts are a flexible and also cheaper …

-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …

building prices. European countries, especially France, have experienced a significant rise in property prices since the … beginning of the century. Germany is an exception. A large increase in the prices of buildings, structures and lands for private … France, non‐financial corporations (NFCs) pay a large supplementary cost for their investments and have to distribute massive …